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Re:Fusion Foolery by indymike on Thursday August 17, 2023 @09:43AM (#37161439)
> The flipside is the refusal of people to acknowledge the good news that we do have -- like solar and wind power.

No one is ignoring it. We're rapidly deploying both technologies all over the place. It's exciting that real money is flowing into the industry. Fusion has speculator money, and Fusion gets extra attention because it's sold as basically, the cure to all energy problems, forever and ever.

Re:Fusion Foolery by pfdietz on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:30AM (#37199497)
When one considers that the world will spend somewhere around a quadrillion dollars on energy in the 21st century, fusion is actually getting very little money. The market is saying the chance of fusion grabbing this gargantuan market is rather small.