US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved

Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by oreilles on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:19PM (#33977709)

Cheaper and cleaner energy has never in the history of enery lead to global reduction of pollution, actually pretty much the opposite. Plus, nuclear power is already virtually free and has been available since the 1970s. If stopping climate change was an energy source problem, it would have already been solved then.

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by opportune on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @06:55PM (#33978057)

I’m not anti fission. But the reality is that many are and the NIMBY effect is strong. You don’t necessarily have that with fusion.

Also, there should hopefully be much less pomp and process around fusion compared to fission due to the safety/radiation profile being much safer.

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by tomComb on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:45PM (#33978489)

“nuclear power is already virtually free”

What? Cost is THE problem with nuclear energy.

You must have some bizarre way of framing things to make today statement - you should at least tell us what that is since you must know that you are making a controversial claim.

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by fastball on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:53PM (#33979052)

Basically the only energy that is cheaper and cleaner than fossil fuels is wind and solar, which have only gotten to that point in the last 1-2 decades, so it seems difficult to make claims about what has happened in "history".

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