Every day the sun mocks us with rays of free, almost limitless power derived from a process that our best minds can't copy down here on earth despite having oceans full of fuel. Having to capture that power with solar panels is almost a slap in the face.
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My favorite solar factoid is that the Sun's core, where nuclear fusion takes place, has the same power density as reptile metabolism. Just a big ball of gator meat up there in the sky, mocking our inability to fuse atoms, giving us freckles.
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A serious effort on climate must include a huge spending program on fusion in the long term, and mass construction of fission plants in the short term. But Biden's proposed budget for nuclear research basically all goes to deferred maintenance. Those atoms won't split themselves!
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It's time we learned to love atomic energy again. Burying a little radioactive waste deep under Reno is much better than having to breathe wildfire smoke every summer on gondola rides through lower Manhattan.pic.twitter.com/hCoKJTl8lA
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It's scandalous that for all the talk of a climate crisis, the United States hasn't broken ground on a new nuclear power plant since the 1970's. The closest we've come is expanding an existing facility in Georgia.
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So we get fusion, then what? We have fission now, which is still cleaner and more powerful than any other power generation method and we don’t use it. I get the tech, I get that it will basically give us the power to be post-scarcity. But we probably won’t use it
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Fission relies on a scarce resource that depletes itself even when it's not used (admittedly the latter is not a pressing problem)
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The final ten will be the hardest 50.
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Ah, so this is what half-life means
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I love this sort of informed speculation. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING was said in this tweet, ye tit sounded important and profound. Truly Master Level Bullshittery on display. I applaud you
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