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Title: Alternative Energy
Post by: Morris Minor on May 20, 2022, 01:02:37 PM
On how we're to power our shiny new EVs and get clean base load generation.
Fusion:
This is from 2 1/2 years ago - a pretty good explanation, pitched higher than TV mainstream level. Guessing we'd have heard about it if they'd succeeded.  So still 40 years away... as it has been for the last 70 years.  :lol:

https://youtu.be/M1RsHQCMRTw (https://youtu.be/M1RsHQCMRTw)

Title: Re: Alternative Energy
Post by: Morris Minor on December 14, 2022, 05:27:06 AM
Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
First-ever net-energy gain from fusion raises hopes for zero-carbon alternative.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/fusion-energy-breakthrough-by-us-scientists-boosts-clean-power-hopes/?comments=1&comments-page=1 (https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/fusion-energy-breakthrough-by-us-scientists-boosts-clean-power-hopes/?comments=1&comments-page=1)
Title: Re: Alternative Energy
Post by: r0tor on December 14, 2022, 05:45:51 AM
Now only 3 more decades to make it last longer than a fraction of a second and 5 more decades until it becomes affordable enough to implement  :cheers:
Title: Re: Alternative Energy
Post by: Morris Minor on December 14, 2022, 06:24:44 AM
It's a law of the universe that it's always 40 years away.