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> What effect would it have on humanity? Climate change is solved. Not really. It'll just be another tool for the fossil fuel lobby to use to misdirect attenti
by Schroedingersat 4y ago
> What effect would it have on humanity? Climate change is solved.
Not really. It'll just be another tool for the fossil fuel lobby to use to misdirect attention from what will make them irrelevant forever (reduction and sunlight).
Even if the reactor part is free and 100% reliable. Getting heat out of a 100 million degree chamber that is spewing neutrons everywhere and turning it into electricity is much much harder and more expensive than collecting some photons and building a train.
- yreg 4y agoAs the fossil fuel industry becomes obsolete, it would be wise to rebrand themselves into carbon removal and lobby for high payouts of carbon credits. https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2020/07/04/what-if-carbon-removal-becomes-the-new-big-oil https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2020/07/04/what-if-ca... (not sure how to overcome the paywall)
- DennisP 4y agoArchive gets around their paywall: https://archive.ph/Q9b6b https://archive.ph/Q9b6b Pretty interesting article.