>>7924397>Solar power IS fusion power.With sufficient autistic power level, sure. Solar power and wind power, as we normally speak of these, are entirely dependent on weather and day/night cycle. A fusion power station provides a reliable base load, and at better efficiencies.
A modern solar panel gives you up to 15 percent energy conversion efficiency, and if you also collect the heat you get perhaps 70 percent thermal efficiency, from which you can run a Stirling engine with 5 percent efficiency. That is not much. Same with plants, photosynthesis has only 1 (one) percent conversion efficiency. Even if you did some fancy genetic engineering and combined with photo rhodopsin, you may perhaps reach 3 percent.
