Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab

Re:Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab by germano on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:22PM (#6511708)

I would imagine that the price/kW of coal will become easier to beat as we run out of it.

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Re:Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab by rpedela on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:24PM (#6511722)

Pick your favorite energy technology (oil, wind, solar), it still applies.

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Re:Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab by NhanH on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:35PM (#6512463)

It's quite a bit harder to run out of wind and solar.

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Re:Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab by rpedela on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:57PM (#6512549)

Yeah. My comment has nothing to do with finite or infinite amount of any energy technology but rather that my original comment applies to fusion competing with the price of any existing energy technology such as coal, oil, wind, solar, etc.

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Re:Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab by tyree732 on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @11:55AM (#6515800)

Sure, but it's not too difficult to run out of the materials necessary to usefully collect those energy sources.

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Re:Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab by mikeash on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:48PM (#6511852)

We're not running out of coal any time soon.

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