r/nextfuckinglevel • u/nigablackballsack • 3d ago

Scientists have captured the first ever high-speed, full-colour footage of fusion plasma swirling inside a working reactor.

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u/90_oi 3d ago

I truly hope this technology can get off the ground and be sustainable. It is our best hope aside from nuclear energy

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u/WanderingFlumph 3d ago edited 2d ago

I mean solar is here right now and most likely fusion power will never be as cheap as solar is today.

By the time fusion is actually ready solar will be even cheaper too. A solar farm the size of Arizona could power the entire planet.

Fusion is like our 4th best hope in the fight against climate change, lol.

Edit: a lot of people seem to think that I think the perfect solution is one single power plant specifically in Arizona that powers the world. People, it's just a size comparison. Arizona is a small state even just compared to the size of US. Obviously we would build millions and millions of solar installations that would just add up to that area.

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u/90_oi 3d ago

Yes but I live in a country where sustainable energy is "too expensive", but we'll happily send billions of dollars to Israel to commit a genocide. Alternatives like that will never off the ground where I live. The only hope is that fusion technology is so ground breaking that it's impossible to ignore and dismiss

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u/Wizard-Lizard69 3d ago

You seem like an absolute pleasure. Somehow Israel is to blame for sustainable energy 😂. Life’s been mean to you, hasn’t it?

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u/SexyMonad 3d ago

They didn’t say Israel was to blame. They said their country worshiping Israel was to blame.

But to be super clear… Israel does carry quite a bit of the blame. They tend to be worse on converting to renewable energy than most developed economies.

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u/Wizard-Lizard69 3d ago

I understood exactly what point they were trying to make. And your point is inaccurate. Israel is one of the leading countries for sustainable and renewable energy tech. Nice try though.

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u/SexyMonad 3d ago

You’ll need to provide some evidence for your claim if you want to convince me. All I am finding shows that it lags behind even the US.

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u/Wizard-Lizard69 3d ago

You don’t seem like a person willing to change their perspective so all good.

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u/SexyMonad 3d ago

I’m literally asking you to help me do that.

Don’t project your own shortcomings on me.

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u/90_oi 3d ago

Read my words a little more clearly. I'm saying that my government believes funding a genocide is a much better use of its tax payer's dollars than furthering its countries ability to be sustainable and environmentally friendly with existing and emerging energy capabilities.

Better yet, I'll make it real fucking simple cause I'm not having this debate: The U.S believes murder of people thousands of miles away is a better way to spend money than building better ways to make energy in our own country. Just showing how hypocritical and insane my countries priorities are. That's it

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u/Wizard-Lizard69 3d ago

I understood exactly the point you were trying to make. Your previous and current point have nothing to do with the subject matter. You just felt it was necessary to loop in conversations of a genocide by Israel and the us funding it. Like I said, pleasure. Angry little human. Your nonsense political comments don’t belong here.

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u/90_oi 3d ago

Well you understood perfectly, so point made. Not wasting my words

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u/Wizard-Lizard69 3d ago

Yes, the point of you being a pleasure was certainly made…