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> Seeing humanity achieve net fusion in my lifetime would be a total game changer and repoint a good chunk of our future. For the same reason, I hope it will n
by js8 5y ago
> Seeing humanity achieve net fusion in my lifetime would be a total game changer and repoint a good chunk of our future.
For the same reason, I hope it will never happen. We will fuse all the hydrogen currently stored in Earth oceans just to produce Bitcoins or do something equally crazy. Remember when Americans put down a lot of asphalt just because they had all the oil? It didn't turn out to be so great 50 years after. I don't believe fusion is going to help our planet, either.
- lolc 5y agoConverting all hydrogen on earth would be thermal death for us even if done over centuries. While I do think that humanity is a destructive force, and we don't know how to control ourselves, that doesn't mean to me we should not develop fusion reactors. Because we haven't only grown in energy-consumption, but also in responsibility. From my point of view, we should stay on that path. Which includes looking for clean sources of energy.
- taneq 5y agoIt's OK, we'd only spend half of it on bitcoin and spend the other half on air conditioning.