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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    They also used to say Man will never fly.

    Sure… I’m not saying fusion will never happen (it already does of course) or even that it’ll never be net positive for energy.

    Just that, for energy it’s looking to be worse than most other options.

    So I’m not saying man will never fly, I’m saying something closer to flying cars won’t happen. It’s not that we couldn’t do it, just that the alternatives are better.

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      3 months ago

      just that the alternatives are better.

      I’m not sure how you can judge that, against something that doesn’t exist yet.

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        3 months ago

        I’m not sure how you can judge that, against something that doesn’t exist yet.

        Simply based on past and current trends. The advancement curve on fusion would need to really step it up and if we say that it can, then we also need to accept the same is possible for the alternatives which means fusion still lags behind.

        Fusion would need to be extra special somehow, and from what’s happened so far, it seems less special than the rest if anything.

        Naturally this is all speculative of course, and being wrong on this is great either way as one way or another we will continue to get better at getting energy.