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    Green New Deal Ignores Fusion

    Green New Deal Ignores Fusion

    Probably because of A-OC's foolishly unrealistic timeline of 10 years. But fusion is the game changer. We have fusion now; just not in a commercially viable form.

    Earlier this month, U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey published a proposal for the Green New Deal, a plan to mobilize the American economy to stop climate change. It calls for America to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, mostly by expanding the nation’s infrastructure for renewable energy sources like solar and wind energy.


    But there’s something missing from the plan: fusion power, a technology with the potential to revolutionize the energy system by providing cheap, near-limitless electricity that doesn’t leave behind toxic waste or give off greenhouse gas emissions.



    “The idea is fantastic,” Michl Binderbauer, CEO of nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies, told Futurism of the Green New Deal. “To mobilize the whole country in a moonshot is one of the best ideas in a long time.



    But, he said, “I think it will require a broader approach.”






    Binderbauer told Futurism that he expects TAE Technologies to have a commercial-scale fusion reactor up and running in the 2030s — which matches up the speculative timeline of other fusion experts in the field — and argues that allocating public funds for fusion research and development in the Green New Deal would help his and other research teams help make the technology a reality.
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    But, he said, “I think it will require a broader approach.”


    I think it will require powers-that-be who are willing to share the technology, and there aren't any.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post


    I think it will require powers-that-be who are willing to share the technology, and there aren't any.
    Well, the company that finally makes fusion commercially viable will create our first trillionare. I suspect at some level ideas are being traded.
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    How many hundreds of billions of dollars is it worth to quash commercial fusion before it can get going? Just sayin'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    How many hundreds of billions of dollars is it worth to quash commercial fusion before it can get going? Just sayin'.
    You are a half-glass-empty-type, aren't you?
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