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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by aussieshibe on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:58AM (#33980469)
Why won't fusion still be a worthwhile goal even if we do have abundant solar/wind?

Abundant and cheap are relative terms. Solar and wind could be abundant in a "powers everything we have now and for the foreseeable future of population growth" sense, but maybe not in a "gigantic power-hungry megaprojects which aren't remotely possible today" sense?

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by courgette on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:59AM (#33982371)
Also, is solar truly renewable ? Don’t we need some rare earth component to manufacture them.

What happen when we run out of that ?

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by moloch-hai on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @09:17AM (#33983758)
Solar needs nothing that can be run out of. Likewise, storage. There are plenty of lies repeated, about that and about missing "breakthroughs".
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by courgette on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:18AM (#34011683)
Never heard about space and that sound outright silly. We do parking and we have space for that crap.

The other was deeply ingrained in my understanding. That’s good news. I need to do my own research, like the crackpots are saying.

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