• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    brings the dream of endless energy even closer

    Yeah that’s not “close” until we figure out how to do fusion with regular hydrogen, you know, like the sun. When your fusion requires unstable and/or extremely rare isotopes it’s not even going to be viable compared to fission, let alone solving our energy problem.

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      1 day ago

      maybe not in this form, but potentially so.

      people used to criticize james watt’s efforts at electricity and locomotion an impractical; but no one today doubts them.