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Re:China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough by motoboi on Friday November 11, 2016 @06:15PM (#12935363)
I made me curious about something.

Will the heat from all that electricity generation affect the environment in significant ways?

At which energy usage scale humanity will be restricted by the planet environment capacity to deal with the generated heat?

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Re:China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough by londons_explore on Saturday November 12, 2016 @12:09AM (#12936707)
If you have enough cheap energy, you could refrigerate earth and send excess heat to space.

I think we're a long way from that yet though.

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