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by PhantomGremlin 1711 days ago
We have viable fusion, today:

Renewables are fusion at a distance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580174

As a high school senior, I went to visit a college back in 1973. I visited a lab where they were playing around with approaches to fusion reactors, a Tokamak IIRC. Today, 48 years later, we're not really any closer than we were in 1973.

But today we do have both wind energy and PV energy. Commercially viable fusion. We should embrace it.

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IMO the energy needed to manufacture, install and operate all the wind turbines and PV panels would approx cancel out the benefits of renewables ( do we even have that quantity of raw materials readily available ? or would it take an asteroid or two ? )