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Are you saying it doesn't still need more?
by TheDudeMan 5y ago
Are you saying it doesn't still need more?
- freeflight 5y agoYes, that's what I'm saying. Some of the largest economies on this planet have poured massive resources into fission for literally decades. Whatever we might discover/improve, we already did, anything past that seems to have quite diminishing returns. Particularly compared to other technological fields that didn't even get remotely the same levels of funding and time investment. Which means there's much more potential there for actually innovative breakthroughs. Case in point: Grid-scale storage was for the longest time a field that saw barely any attention, it's quite underdeveloped. As the common consensus was that fission will deliver all the electricity we would ever need. Now we have plenty of renewables, but we lack the storage to fully utilize them. Which means if we get grid-storage right, we have already solved a very big part of the problem.