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Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times (www.cnn.com)
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Does Nuclear count as Green Energy? I feel like it should, since it doesn't really pollute and lasts a lot.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Technically the same goes for fission, as new reactors take well over a decade to build nowadays, which is too late for our climate goals and typically diverts resources away from renewables.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah good point. The numbers are a bit closer for fission though. Like phase one we can do renewables but electrification needs way more power than available currently. E.g. green hydrogen. There are valid scale up scenarios where fission is part of the picture, but almost none of them make sense under capitalism.