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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by kibwen on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:36PM (#38272655)
I have good news: we have a working nuclear fusion reactor that produces power on the order of 300 septillion watts per second. In their wisdom, its engineers conveniently placed it about 1 AU from the Earth, meaning that all we need to do is catch the energy it's currently transmitting to us.
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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by FabHK on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:03PM (#38272822)
Presumably 300 septillion Watts (=Joule per second).

And it's true that the sun shines about 100 PW, or 5000x humanity's total energy usage (≈20 TW) on the surface of earth on a nice day.

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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by quickthrower2 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @01:19AM (#38273855)
We are doing that more efficiently with higher levels of CO2
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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by weberer on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:38AM (#38274560)
And how would I go about that during Finnish winter?
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Re:U.S. Reenters the Nuclear Fuel Game by pgeorgi on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @12:09PM (#38279188)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Northern_E...
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