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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by amluto on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:39AM (#20714999)
I prefer “sustainable”, as in “this technology can be used as some scale for X years without causing major problems”.

High-burnup nuclear power, under reasonable assumptions, is sustainable for hundreds of thousands of years. Fusion is presumably sustainable as long as the Earth exists, as are solar and wind. Coal is not sustainable at all.

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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope by acidburnNSA on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:54AM (#20715140)
Right on. Breeder fission reactors can power civilization for at least tens of millions of years, probably billions, thanks to seawater uranium extraction and renewal through plate tectonics.
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