Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab

Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by BizarroLand on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:45PM (#28842694)

Oil companies are subsidized to the tune of Billions of dollars an hour. Subsidizing fusion energy would merely be redirecting that money to the greater payoff.

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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by 420official on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:58PM (#28842882)

This is not true.. 1 billion an hour is 8.76 trillion a year yet you say "billions" an hour which would make it at least 17.52 trillion a year which is basically the entire GDP of the us.

Certainly oil companies are subsidized but not "to the tune of" the entire US GDP.

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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by pstrateman on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:01PM (#28842922)

The hyperbole isn't needed.

Billions of dollars an hour is 17 Trillion dollars a year.

They're not being subsidized by that much

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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by BizarroLand on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:42PM (#28880595)

I made a mistake, I should have said Millions of dollars an hour. Thanks for the correction

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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by akimball on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:36PM (#28844750)

Count the socialized cost of environmental remediation please. It will run into the quadrillion zone

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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by orangepurple on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @10:25PM (#28847540)

The entire workforce of the United States will be deployed with a vegan toothbrush in hand to scrub the Earth of all the hydrocarbons

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