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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by einpoklum on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:50PM (#28842759)
Well, if we'd have gone down that road, plus strong environmental awareness, maybe the Earth wouldn't be warming up so badly right now, and the oceans wouldn't have islands of plastic (= oil) waste. Now, sure, we wouldn't have enjoyed some of the benefits of car technology, but - public transport (esp. trains) makes up for a lot of that. OTOH, public transport pollutes too.
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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:37PM (#28843350)
Had we gone down this road, we'd have a thick layer of manure covering everything. Living creatures are a source of CO2 too, and a big one. Look up for a share of greenhouse gases coming form agriculture. Had we used faster horses, that volume of emissions would be effectively doubled or tripled.
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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by Qwertious on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @04:23PM (#28844617)
>Living creatures are a source of CO2 too, and a big one. Look up for a share of greenhouse gases coming form agriculture.

CO2 emitted by horses comes from the food they eat, which is absorbed from the atmosphere in the first place by the plant when it grows.

And a ton of the greenhouse gases from agriculture come from using oil, a major component of that being from tractors and crop dusters (which wouldn't exist in a horse-only world).

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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:02PM (#28845042)
No, not really. [1]

[1]: https://timeforchange.org/are-cows-cause-of-global-warming-m...

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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by Qwertious on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:59AM (#28850649)
That's methane, I was addressing CO2.

But to address methane: That's cows not horses. Cows produce far more methane than horses.

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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by after_care on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:06PM (#28842993)
I’d much rather take an ICE train than a steam engine train…
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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by xyzzyz on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:10PM (#28847831)
Especially when it's the Comet train entering the Taggart Tunnel.
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Re:Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ trig... by m4rtink on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:44PM (#28843454)
Forget ICE, kets build a ICF powered train! :D
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