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Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by ragebol on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:04AM (#38542154)
Though not the EU anymore, but something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlinks_Morocco%E2%80%93UK_Powe...

The downside being you still don't have energy independence, if that is a goal.

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Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by offices on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:30AM (#38542267)
It should be a goal. It's less than 2 years since a former EU ally used our dependence on them for energy as a bargaining tool.
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Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by gnfargbl on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:08AM (#38542793)
We haven't had energy independence in Europe for decades. That risk is managed by hedging, and there's no reason we couldn't do the same with long-distance solar interconnects.
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Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by adwn on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:24AM (#38542922)
> We haven't had energy independence in Europe for decades.

Yes, and that has bitten us in the ass big time.

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