Reply #3: I am not an expert on the economics of Boron production [View All]

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However, I would be highly cautious about a claim of what is or is not in the oceans. There is a reason why Boron is mined, and I would suspect it is economic, and likely the least resource (including energy) intensive.

I did see a few references to amount of Boron in the oceans, but nothing (via Google, as limited as that is) indicating a efficient or commercially competitive ocean Boron extraction activity.

Thus, I still say renewable, until the entire resource life cycle cost of this form of fusion/fission can be firmly delineated.

I have had to remind people for over 15 years that Tokamak (and likely laser confinement) based fusion were to be performed commercially using HIGHLY radioactive substances that rendered the entire plant nuclear waste. We need to be careful.

Physicist have been known to leave out the real costs when something is going to actually be built and have a running life cycle.

I should know, as I was part of the the Supercollider fallout.