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Comparisons & Context
Fusion vs Natural Gas
Gas provides firm, flexible power — and carbon and fuel-price risk. Fusion aims at the same role without either.
- Gas
- Firm, flexible, emitting
- Fusion
- Firm, clean, fuel-secure
Gas plants are firm and flexible but emit CO&sub2; and ride fuel-price volatility. A driven fusion machine is steerable like gas, emits no operational carbon, and runs on effectively inexhaustible fuel — the value proposition Kronos aims at for firm generation.
Cost is the open questionGas is cheap and proven; fusion's competitiveness rests on capital cost and availability, which Kronos flags as its central commercial studies.