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NNadir

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7. I regularly attend talks at PPPL...

Reply to qazplm135 (Reply #6)

Thu May 30, 2019, 09:16 AM

May 2019

...on fusion. I would have very little against it if it was demonstrated and scalable. But it has been 20-30 years off for more than half a century.

We are at over 410 ppm concentrations of dangerous fossil fuel waste in the planetary atmosphere.

We don't have time to wait for speculative technologies. Nuclear fission is here now, is demonstrated in both best and worst cases.

It is demonstrated to be superior to all other forms of commercially available technologies, which, in a rational world would be enough.

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Concerned About the Planetary Climate, the IEA Urges Rethinking Nuclear Phase Outs. [View all] NNadir May 2019 OP

Message auto-removed Name removed May 2019 #1

Not at all. NNadir May 2019 #2

Russian natural gas is the best! hunter May 2019 #4

Just what the fossil fuel industry would want... NeoGreen May 2019 #3

I'm aware of the opinions of anti-nukes, and the result, recorded in the planetary atmosphere... NNadir May 2019 #5

To me one of the answers qazplm135 May 2019 #6

I regularly attend talks at PPPL... NNadir May 2019 #7

It's been that way because we haven't qazplm135 May 2019 #8

This is not really true. NNadir May 2019 #11

Billions of dollars have been spent on fusion research. It's seen "Apollo Program" emphasis. hunter May 2019 #9

Compare that to Apollo program qazplm135 May 2019 #10

I think more intellectual energy has been applied to the problem of controlled fusion... hunter May 2019 #12

oh I don't think that's remotely true qazplm135 May 2019 #13

Oh sure we have... hunter May 2019 #14

you do understand qazplm135 May 2019 #15

In today's dollars, the Apollo Program was what, $180 billion? hunter May 2019 #17

On the contrary. We arrested and then hired Werner Von Braun in 1945. NNadir May 2019 #16