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When I was a little kid in the fourth grade, I remember doing a book report about nuclear power, and how fusion research meant that we'd be done with fossil fue
by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
When I was a little kid in the fourth grade, I remember doing a book report about nuclear power, and how fusion research meant that we'd be done with fossil fuels forever any decade now.
Still waiting for any serious attempt to get off fossil fuels. Oh well, there goes the planet.
- tim333 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440708 yesterday was quite upbeat on the off fossil thing.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoWind and solar are nice, but it'll be The Future when we finally get power that's "too cheap to meter".
- msandford 11y agoThe future is never, then, because you'll still have to pay for how much copper (and everything else) is tied up in the delivery of power from the free power plant to your house. Which isn't free.
- lloyd-christmas 11y agoThey never said "free" they said "too cheap to meter". The costs you mention are typically infrastructure related taxes, and aren't done on a per-usage basis.
- msandford 11y agoSo we're going to buy power based on our theoretical peak consumption? Like if I want 100 amps of 220V single-phase service to my house that's $X and if I want 200 amps of 3 phase 220V that's $2X? Or however it works? I'm not necessarily opposed to something like that, but then we'll be getting back into the "you sold me unlimited internet but it's not really unlimited because even if I use it at 100% capacity I can't consume infinite bandwidth, so there is in fact a real limit"
- mineshaftgap 11y ago>Oh well, there goes the planet. I hate this flippant defeatism that is the millennials calling card.