When fusion arrives in the next 40 years: "Lithium from sea water would last 60 million years, however, and a more complicated fusion process using only deuterium would have fuel for 150 billion years." [calculated at 1995 global power output]
This looks really neat but I unfortunately don't have the necessary background knowledge to understand what this is even visualizing. Is there a tutorial to help acquire the necessary math/background knowledge to be able to comprehend what's being modeled?
For example, what are "Power", "Alpha", "n", and "d"?
Also "Type I" and "Type II" errors? What's the intuition as to how these all relate each other?
Is there a blog post, chapter, that explains all of this? Or would this require significant learning i.e. a full semester course or a textbook.
When fusion arrives in the next 40 years: "Lithium from sea water would last 60 million years, however, and a more complicated fusion process using only deuterium would have fuel for 150 billion years." [calculated at 1995 global power output]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power#Energy_source