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It's nice to see advancements like this but I'm not sure that they will come soon enough for climate change. We needed to move on that yesterday. The industrial
by lambdasquirrel 5y ago
It's nice to see advancements like this but I'm not sure that they will come soon enough for climate change. We needed to move on that yesterday. The industrialized countries need to sort out their safer fission options as a stopgap measure, and it's something we can start moving on immediately.
- nopinsight 5y agoIf cheap energy from fusion becomes reality, it would open up many possibilities, including carbon capture techniques that are currently impractical.
- shakezula 5y agoThese are already cheap enough with current fission tech. It’s just that no one cares enough to do it.
- japanuspus 5y agoIf only everyone has been as radically rational back in the 1970's when the greenhouse effect was generally dismissed as an argument for nuclear (fission) power, we would have had a half century head start.
- alexgmcm 5y agoWhy not both? Fusion research budgets are a tiny, almost negligible, fraction of GDP as it is. We aren't so starved for cash we have to choose between fusion or fission - but that might mean less money for wars, the ultra-rich etc.