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China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible
(www.the-independent.com)
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oil, coal and nuclear are clearly not winning.
we could solve the worlds energy problems today but they'd never be applied simply because oil exists. its literally why the US just attacked venezuela. They could have built another reactor or windmills or whatever the fuck else they feel they need if energy was the reason. but energy has nothing to do with energy and all to do with being a natural monopoly that's making a small group of people quite wealthy.
God, I wonder if we could fund a next gen fission plant with what we already spent on Venezuela
Yes but those are not fusion. Fusion is the 'holy-grail' of energy technology. It is a long term goal that we must work towards. It's a problem of science.
For now renewables are the cheapest, quickest, and best method we have. They should be receiving all the money wasted on those 3 methods you've mentioned above. That's a problem of politics.
We easily have the means to achieve both, we are hamstrung by shortsighted corporate interests and yes this applies to China as well.
It doesn't matter if the people with the war machines are the ones who control the grids,lines,pipes,etc.
The 'holy grail' will most likely result in further top down dominance. As god king tyrants demonstrate their continued uselessness to humanity by creating more powerful and destructive weapons and hoarding the infinite power supply for their own.
Passenger vehicles and homes and most businesses could be owed by solar and wind, but oil will still be used for quite a while for cargo shipping and commercial trucks and things like tires. We could use a lot less, but oil is going to hang around for quite a while. Passenger vehicles account for about 25% of oil used.