• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Nuclear, both fission and fusion (which will never happen anyway) are relics of an era of cheap fossil fuels and relative world order.

    Solar electricity is viable at scale but also indicates a change in our species’ living arrangements on this planet.

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      2 days ago

      That’s an interesting way to look at it. If it’s not just about the power and the cost, there are actually a lot of other factors that we have glossed over.

      Solar is cooperative and local while nuclear necessitates centralization. In a nuclear future, large nuclear generating corporations are the sellers and we are the buyers. In a solar future, we pool and exchange our power depending on current production ability and current electric need… comrade.

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      2 days ago

      We are started to build the first commercial fusion plants now. You may want to update your rhetoric.

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        2 days ago

        I look forward to seeing them produce energy in a short 20 years from now.

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          2 days ago

          You should read up on the topic, I know I was surprised, the breakthroughs have recently happened. Now it is just permitting and building. Obviously there will still be issues, but there is little question to the reality now.

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            1 day ago

            I’ve read of smaller reactors that should speed up prototyping, but nothing about actual net positive energy production. That’s still far away.

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              1 day ago

              This happened a long time ago. Prototyping is over. I was very skeptical as well up until they figured out a practical reactor design and are in the process of building and permitting several commercial plants around the world.

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              1 day ago

              Living in denial as they are building commercial plants. Looks like Big Oil propaganda got you.

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                1 day ago

                Thankfully there’s no Big Fusion propaganda. Might want to check your face for a gigantic hook.

                There is no system capable or conceivable to generate net electrical energy at commercial scale.

                None.