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What Are The Benefits Of Fusion Energy?
Nation and State ^ | 11/11/2022 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 11/11/2022 9:17:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/11/2022 9:17:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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What Are The Benefits Of Fusion Energy?

what Fusion Energy?


2 posted on 11/11/2022 9:21:11 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ever wonder what we humans would do
if the “science” told us that the earth was cooling?


3 posted on 11/11/2022 9:26:52 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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Just ask Doc Ock that question.


4 posted on 11/11/2022 9:27:02 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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Just ask Doc Ock that question.

who's that?


5 posted on 11/11/2022 9:28:54 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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Dr. Octopus from the SPIDER-MAN movies.


6 posted on 11/11/2022 9:30:57 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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Absolutely right on the benefits. Really too bad NO ONE knows how to accomplish it on a useful scale yet. It’s a nice dream!


7 posted on 11/11/2022 9:35:14 PM PST by Grandpa Drudge (Just an old man, desperate to preserve our great country for my great grandchildren.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Minor problem, we don’t yet have the knowledge to make fusion work controllable for any length of time.
Even when we use it in our weapons we need a Fission source to set it off.
IIRC the reaction inside the sun makes lots of Gamma “Rays” that are somewhat harmful. Supposedly the photons that warm your body on a sunny day were made over a million years ago.
and are very attenuated Gamma “Rays”. Y’all can look it up.

Kind of like EV everybody wants to do it, but the technology isn’t there yet.
How about we use what we know how to do now.
Thorium reactors, modern u-235 reactors, recycling of waste u-235 fuel, et al, till we figure out how to control Gravity
to make Fusion work.


8 posted on 11/11/2022 9:35:59 PM PST by rellic
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RE: Ever wonder what we humans would do if the “science” told us that the earth was cooling?

GLOBAL COOLING WAS ALL THE DOOMSDAY RAGE IN THE 1970s.


TIME MAGAZINE COVER IN 1977

9 posted on 11/11/2022 9:37:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Dr. Octopus from the SPIDER-MAN movies.

Thanks!       :)   I'm too old to watch superhero flix


10 posted on 11/11/2022 9:39:36 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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11 posted on 11/11/2022 9:39:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Since I was a wee lad (Now 66 y/o), I have been hearing about the likely benefits of fusion energy.
The main two benefits being #1. ‘A virtually endless supply of energy!’ #2. This form of energy is shockingly cheap and apparently easy to produce.

The end to the discussion of Fusion Energy normally goes something like “...But THEY won’t ever allow science to put this plan into action. It would take down Big Energy virtually overnight! There are too many billions of dollars at stake to let that be snatched away, just for the benefit of consumers. The consumers expect to be charged for it anyway.”

I don’t know what it true or not true about it.
I’m no scientist or engineer....or biologist either for that matter.


12 posted on 11/11/2022 9:43:14 PM PST by lee martell
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The main two benefits being #1. ‘A virtually endless supply of energy!’ #2. This form of energy is shockingly cheap and apparently easy to produce.

does this sound anything like louis strouss'      'too cheap to meter' claim about debunked nuclear fusion?

it's all lies


13 posted on 11/11/2022 9:49:32 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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”What are the benefits of fusion energy?”

Now there’s a pointless question.

14 posted on 11/11/2022 9:51:21 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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'too cheap to meter' claim about debunked nuclear fusion?

'too cheap to meter' claim about debunked nuclear fission?

sorry


15 posted on 11/11/2022 9:52:04 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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AND the number one benefit is the huge amount of tax dollars to make boondoggles like the ITER. Think Solyndra but on a budget of trillions.


16 posted on 11/11/2022 10:00:51 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Repeal The 17th

“Climate Scientists” told us that in the 70s.


17 posted on 11/11/2022 10:01:23 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Grandpa Drudge
Absolutely right on the benefits. Really too bad NO ONE knows how to accomplish it on a useful scale yet.

For the past 50 years, cold fusion technology has always been 20 years away!

18 posted on 11/11/2022 10:17:04 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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Fusion energy reminds me of the famous old sign you used to see in bars: FREE BEER TOMORROW.

Meanwhile the Molten Salt Thorium Reactor technology can be implemented TODAY, at a cost per megawatt cheaper than coal, and with only 1% of the high-level waste that the uranium/pressurized-water plants generate. Much safer, too, since the MSTR design doesn’t require power to run massive pumps if it has to be shut down. “Fukushima Syndrome” just isn’t possible if an MSTR plant is properly designed.


19 posted on 11/11/2022 10:55:00 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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finally the jetsons

well maybe

sometime in the future

question

how are they going to develop fusion energy when we are completely dependent on wind/solar

sitting in the cold and dark wondering when our next meal will be


20 posted on 11/11/2022 11:27:34 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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