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Environment & Energy

Binkie The Clown

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17. The oil industry

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 09:25 PM

Mar 2015

will hire a bunch of "scientists" to scare people into believing that it will set the atmosphere on fire. Republicans and other anti-science fools will put a stop to it in a hurry.

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Lockheed Martin's new Compact Fusion Reactor might change humanity forever [View all] Agnosticsherbet Mar 2015 OP

500 MilliWatts is hardly impressive - does it produce nuclear waste? Romeo.lima333 Mar 2015 #1

Fusion reactions produce *much* less radioactive waste than fission reactions. eppur_se_muova Mar 2015 #2

Thats true for DD & DT fuels. FogerRox Mar 2015 #9

The waste for fusion is helium. Makes you sound funny when you talk. immoderate Mar 2015 #3

Hydrogen fusion waste is helium. longship Mar 2015 #4

Waste depends on the fusion fuel. FogerRox Mar 2015 #8

An operational fusion reactor in just 10 years Optical.Catalyst Mar 2015 #5

anything new?, or is this 4 months old?...nt quadrature Mar 2015 #6

I hope not. Humans don't need any more energy to eat the earth. hunter Mar 2015 #7

Energy doesn't eat the earth. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2015 #10

No, humans with excess energy eat the Earth. nt GliderGuider Mar 2015 #11

Imagine a mess of these machines, powered by fusion... hunter Mar 2015 #13

They are moving earth, rearanging the furniture, not eating it. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2015 #14

And the plants and animals on top of that earth? NickB79 Mar 2015 #15

We need better environmental laws. but this has nothing to do with a new source of energy. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2015 #16

It has everything to do with a new source of energy. Nihil Mar 2015 #18

They have a source of energy that would make coal and natural gas obsolete Agnosticsherbet Mar 2015 #19

It will be a wonderfully clean source of energy if/when it arrives but that is missing the point. Nihil Mar 2015 #20

"might" "could" "may" - the usual Fusion Fail with Weaksauce hatrack Mar 2015 #12

The oil industry Binkie The Clown Mar 2015 #17