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Ender16 t1_j0a5l2n wrote

Reply to comment by badalberts in Fusion energy breakthrough and national security implications explained by TheScienceAdvocate

Your not wrong, but your misrepresenting how good of a thing this is.

It would be like me being all smug years ago saying, "Yeah that solar power thing sure is cool, you can run a whole calculator with it."

And yet here we are in 2022 with solar power being a serious competing energy source for the grid.

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badalberts t1_j0b5qi1 wrote

Perhaps. but I’m still skeptical. Forgot to mention that they also blew up a diamond doing it. It’ll be great if it’s a viable source of energy and all. Just don’t think I’ll hold my breath

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Ok-disaster2022 t1_j0b2x0s wrote

People like to thinks it's technology that's a problem when it's simply economics. Renewables are doing well today because they're subsidized, and grids have to buy renewable energy first. Fossil fuel production is also excessively subsidized and governmentally encouraged.

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johnpseudo t1_j0bgyrq wrote

Renewables are cheaper than any of the alternatives, even if we were to remove their subsidies. (1, 2)

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