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Way overshooting the confidence on fusion here.

• labster 6y ago
  Fusion is still 20 years away.
• hobofan 6y ago
  Yeah, last time I checked everyone was still on the "viable fusion is constantly 20 years away" meme.
• martimarkov 6y ago
  It’s like 20 years away!!
• kristopolous 6y ago
  It's placing something that quite literally simply does not exist on the balance sheet. A physicist who died 55 years ago said it'd be commercially deployed by 1975. 1954 was the "too cheap to meter" claim by an investment banker who worked for the Truman administration. That's still quoted today, said 2 years before Elvis debuted on Ed Sullivan. We're all supposed to treat it like it's a valid opinion. While instead, 46 years after the predicted free energy for all bonanza, rate payers are getting hit with taxes to keep nuclear going. It's in practice, in actual reality, a more expensive option. Continue to research. March on with science, sure. But as a matter of public policy and planning, relying on it is pure fantasy. I don't know why hn is so koolaid-drunk on this stuff. It's a cult with 70 years of failed predictions. It's apparently like any other cult where wrong predictions make the true believers even more fanatical. We're amidst planet altering climate change, this is really not the time to fuck around.