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atleast until we create an artificial star on earth ( i.e. viable fusion reactor )
by cee_el123 5y ago
atleast until we create an artificial star on earth ( i.e. viable fusion reactor )
- andbberger 5y agono no no no no! no! we have the spicy rocks now! there is literally nothing wrong with fission. we can't stand here dying while we wait for non-existent technology to save us we needed more spicy rock reactors like, 50 years ago.
- cee_el123 5y agoeven if we agree that safety is guaranteed.. there is the fact that it would take a lot of dirty energy to build all the reactors and to source the uranium.. that is.. potential payoff has a upper bound unlike in fusion
- PhantomGremlin 5y agoWe have viable fusion, today: Renewables are fusion at a distance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580174 As a high school senior, I went to visit a college back in 1973. I visited a lab where they were playing around with approaches to fusion reactors, a Tokamak IIRC. Today, 48 years later, we're not really any closer than we were in 1973. But today we do have both wind energy and PV energy. Commercially viable fusion. We should embrace it.
- cee_el123 5y agoIMO the energy needed to manufacture, install and operate all the wind turbines and PV panels would approx cancel out the benefits of renewables ( do we even have that quantity of raw materials readily available ? or would it take an asteroid or two ? )