energy so cheap that you dont need foreign imports for energy. just give this to every third world nation and capitalism is ruined. im talking a near infinite supply of energy, and the resources to repair the reactor would be relatively common, enough to keep us going for millions of years
this is why nuclear research and nuclear development is so important. humanity cannot sustain civilization and industry forever without it. we will eventually run out of good hydrocarbons, good lithium, and so on. and it takes more energy to create these things than it does to burn it. so without nuclear research, widespread industrial civilization cannot exist forever.
the important thing about fusion is if we get it running, we can put some energy in and get more out of it, which will allow us to create things like lithium without an energy deficit. no other technology allows this level of flexibility. we're relying on energy from natural processes that formed lithium, hydrocarbons, etc. over the course of thousands or millions of years. but we'd be getting abundant energy quickly. and if we have hundreds of thousands of years to sit around and research, we might even come up with something better without a time crunch that other technologies give us.
energy so cheap that you dont need foreign imports for energy. just give this to every third world nation and capitalism is ruined. im talking a near infinite supply of energy, and the resources to repair the reactor would be relatively common, enough to keep us going for millions of years
this is why nuclear research and nuclear development is so important. humanity cannot sustain civilization and industry forever without it. we will eventually run out of good hydrocarbons, good lithium, and so on. and it takes more energy to create these things than it does to burn it. so without nuclear research, widespread industrial civilization cannot exist forever.
the important thing about fusion is if we get it running, we can put some energy in and get more out of it, which will allow us to create things like lithium without an energy deficit. no other technology allows this level of flexibility. we're relying on energy from natural processes that formed lithium, hydrocarbons, etc. over the course of thousands or millions of years. but we'd be getting abundant energy quickly. and if we have hundreds of thousands of years to sit around and research, we might even come up with something better without a time crunch that other technologies give us.
simple explanation (very unperfect): https://youtu.be/mZsaaturR6E
longer explanation that is a bit better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPS-epGPJmg
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yep. pouring resources into it is very sensible if you think long term. but no, we like to think for the next quarter, the next 2-4 years.
I don't really feel like we should sustain industry and civilization in the forms we're familiar with. They need to be replaced.