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Fusion is an energy source. Like any other energy source it's automatically also a weapon. All energy sources have historically saved many more lives than they
by candiodari 8y ago
Fusion is an energy source. Like any other energy source it's automatically also a weapon. All energy sources have historically saved many more lives than they ever cost, including nuclear power.
And even solar power is a weapon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#Heat_ray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#Heat_ray
- ben_w 8y agoYes. Unfortunately, despite the fact that even current nuclear causes less deaths per GWh than anything else including solar, it’s also the only power source currently offering humanity a self-made extinction apocalypse. (Also the heat mirror was debunked twice by Mythbusters, as referenced in your own link).
- candiodari 8y agoTrue, but that's only because it's a really good power source. For instance, it's also what allows us to have working devices outside our solar system, and for similar reasons. Any really good power source will have this problem, as will a great many other technologies, should we have them.
- ben_w 8y agoIndeed. I would rather we had mass interplanetary/lunar colonisation before making interstellar propulsion, for that very reason.