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I look at my kids and then I look at this kind of project and it's promise. If it works, if we can get fusion and it's promise, then my kids are going to live
by Balgair 3y ago
I look at my kids and then I look at this kind of project and it's promise.
If it works, if we can get fusion and it's promise, then my kids are going to live in a radically different world, and a much better one.
Gone are many of the resource wars, gone are the fears of fission based power, whether it be the waste or refinement, gone are the limitations of the electrical grid due to weather (mostly).
Finally, we'll have electricity too cheap to measure. Finally, they won't have to care about the price of a barrel of oil and how that affects their governments. Finally, they'll have the energy to actually do something about climate change without adding to the problem.
But all these thoughts are going to seem like 'faster horses' to them. Their ideas in a world of nearly free and clean energy are going to make mine seem so very antiquated.
I'm hoping that they are going to live most of their lives in a world just so much better than mine. And I really do think that fusion is one step in that direction.
Something about that makes me just smile.