Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes

First-ever net energy gain from fusion raises hopes for zero-carbon alternative.

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This site has electricity generation for the UK https://gridwatch.co.uk/ and renewables are basically dead as the wind has stopped blowing and due to it being winter solar is also dead and both have been for the last 39 hours.

How much battery capacity and how big an area of land would be needed to power the UK for that length of time using the 35.5 to 38.5GW's average electricity usage?

Because currently we are just burning lots of natural gas with some coal and biomass.

This is with the UK having 25GW of installed capacity for wind power and 14GW of solar.


We need fusion to become usable a lot faster than it is going to be.

Wow . . . "the wind has stopped blowing".

 

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Hopefully that is sarcasm (I can't tell anymore) because literally none of that is correct.

Although "water can be produced from oceans with electricity" = desalination.

 

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honestly, I see the last few percent of power requirements, and the transportation sectors that can't go electric as likely sharing a solution in most cases, and that is most likely (IMO) biofuels, you'd already have the infrastructure, because some sectors can't avoid liquid hydrocarbons,

And maybe ultimately geothermal, if it becomes more widespread (for power anyway, if not transportation).