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If only that kind of money and research was put into properly exploiting the nice big yellow fusion reactor that's already in the sky... No need to worry about
by dragonbonheur 11y ago
If only that kind of money and research was put into properly exploiting the nice big yellow fusion reactor that's already in the sky... No need to worry about plasma abrasion of Tokamak walls and magnetic confinement if that happened.
- lhopki01 11y agoGermany has spent the most on solar subsidies of any country. Don't make this an exclusive situation. They can do both.
- dragonbonheur 11y agoSolar panels aren't the only way.
- Shivetya 11y agoI think the idea here is to have continuous and reliable base line power that is clean. While solar does present a lot of opportunities it is highly sensitive to weather, in not changes in the Earth's orientation seasonally. Throw in we have lots of established plants with steam generators a new source of steam would integrate nicely into complex systems we already understand.
- badsock 11y agoTo echo one of Shivetya's points: the dominate renewables of solar and wind both need some sort of compliment that can fill in the temporary gaps when either demand is high or supply is low. Hydroelectric is great, but there's not enough of it. We'll see how batteries do, but it's nice to have more than one horse in the race.