what do you think the odds are weve already figured out economical fusion but a shadowy baptist-bootlegger cabal of OPEC and various green grifter's (climate Scientists who would lose their careers, solar and wind companies, various idiots) are keeping it suppressed or crippled
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Well we at least *know* that fission reactors are cool and work well
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“nobody wants a nuclear plant in their yard—“ I do, me, put it in my yard, put it where my dishwasher goes please give it to m
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It looks like natural gas was suppressed for a decade (late 70s--early 80s).
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Ah, but this one we *all* decided it wasn't worth trying. We collectively decided it was better to avoid the short term risk of nuclear disaster by gambling the entire future of the species, than it was to take advantage of this miraculous tech. Most people didn't know this was
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what they were doing, but the decision was widespread, no shadowy cabal necessary to explain this one
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Nuclear costs a damn fortune and has the absolute shit subsidized out of it. There is a lot of nonsense floating around--a new form of climate change denial that started with Trump. You know about Perovskite cells and CATL making commercial sodium-ion batteries, right?
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All those nuke plants from the 70's were built for the same reason we shot rockets into space. The electricity was a byproduct. The efficiency gains coming from solar cells every few years would blow your mind, and with zip for research grant money. Compare that to nuke research.
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