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Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times (edition.cnn.com)
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Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times::Scientists in California make a significant step in what could one day be an important solution to the global climate crisis, driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.

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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Nuclear fusion isn't the solution to the climate crisis. It's decades away, if it ever happens; the climate crisis is something we're having to tackle now.

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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Researching this doesn't prevent renewables being researched or rolled out? I think the nuclear scientists developing this might be better researching this as opposed to researching fission reactors or researching renewables as this is likely their area of expertise.

    Fusion is a long shot but if it was achieved it would be world changing (hopefully for the better)

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Agreed, as a whole we need to stop the argument line of reasoning that one alternative is at the expense of another, and then admonishing one because it’s not the “better” of the two options. Multiple things can happen at once, progress isn’t necessarily linear.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Let's be honest a research isn't at the expense of others but greedy politicians and CEO's are at the expense of every research and everything we researched.

    In France we got a lot of nuclear fission, probably the best idea we could invest in right? Except investors took any money they could and we never spent enough on upkeep of the facilities nor the next generation of qualified workers. And now we got old power plant that are very hard to deal with.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Solution:

    No more Private Jets or Yachts.

    Transportation Infrastructure Overhaul to transition away from cars and diversify to a set of electric or non-fuel forms of transportation (Lightrail, Train, Electric Busses, Bikes, Lamborfeeties.)

    But to do the latter we'd have to go on a major guerilla marketing campaign to undo decades of car company propaganda.

    And for the former we'd basically have to perform a miracle.

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