The first facility that, by the end of the year, will produce more energy than it consumes has come online. This is great news as far as energy production is concerned. Fusion power could provide lots of cheap energy.
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If they can actually pass the breakthrough point it would be awesome.
Theres more than enough hydrogen isotopes in the worlds oceans for fusion power to fuel the worlds energy needs millions of times over. Cheap clean energy that doesn't pollute or create high level waste, and that we can be completely self reliant off of is just what we need.
Although some envirormentalist will probally still find something to freak out about.
That's a given. Environmentalists complain about wind farms and solar power. Literally. They say that large groups of windmills kill birds, and so they're bad. A solar power facility couldn't run a power line through a forest to actually provide its power to someone because the environmentalists complained.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams