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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by bushbaba on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:05PM (#33971779)
Maybe. Fusion energy might be more expensive than current forms or has undesirable yet to be known side effects.

People said the same of nuclear and here we are.

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by seandoe on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:11PM (#33971888)
And had we continued to develop and improve upon fission we'd probably be in a better place.
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by dal on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:13PM (#33971931)
You mean like tearing a hole in the fabric of space and time and opening a hell portal to another dimension?
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by jrootabega on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:20PM (#33972115)
That only happened ONCE.
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by sh1mmer on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:14PM (#33971946)
People also said the same thing about wind and solar, and those still have some downsides but they are also rapidly becoming the cheapest current form of peak energy, or with cheaper grid storage, energy period.

Sci-if authors have been talking about both solar and fusion for years, and now solar has been industrialized why wouldn’t we be excited to see progression in fusion?

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by eastbound on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:17PM (#33972022)
The negative effect of nuclear were known in 1927 (Hermann Joseph Meller). It would be surprising if we discovered another form of radiation, given calculations lead us far further without showing new forms of radiations.
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