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This is a great example of an important and valid use for plastic! For the number of lives this saves - and one is enough - this is an achievement to be proud o
by maxharris 7y ago
This is a great example of an important and valid use for plastic! For the number of lives this saves - and one is enough - this is an achievement to be proud of.
With promising new startups such as Commonwealth Fusion Systems (this is the talk to start with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4), I'm not going to worry about the garbage problem. My bet is that we'll see proof of fusion's viability within the next decade. In the era that follows, people will be literally mining landfills for raw materials to separate into perfect piles of feedstock. A 1e8 C plasma will strip the electrons off of any atoms you place inside it, and you can magnetically separate the charged nuclei.
And if I'm wrong about any of that, a few more decades of landfill use isn't going to change anything anyway. http://jmc.stanford.edu/commentary/progress/index.html http://jmc.stanford.edu/commentary/progress/index.html
- foxyv 7y agoThe answer has always been a source of cheap, clean, abundant, and safe energy. But I'm not very optimistic about seeing it in my lifetime aside from maybe next generation fission plants. It WILL happen, just not anytime soon. We may see a fusion plant going positive soon, but probably not for a price we can afford commercially.