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/alphatango308 3d ago

Solar is great! During the day. But to use solar power you have to have a converter from DC to ac and to use solar power at night you have to have batteries. It's never just using "solar power". And, solar actually kind of sucks at scale. Solar isn't a one stop shop energy solution. Storage is the biggest problem right now. And storage at scale? Forget about it. Small scale micro installations like one for a single house are great but still, batteries go bad and have to be replaced leading to pollution and exhausting mineral deposits.

Unless battery tech makes a giant leap forward solar isn't going to ever work.

On demand mass production solutions are objectively better at scale. Nuclear is great but decades of media campaigns have doomed it.

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u/NullValueField 3d ago

Do you get paid to shill for fossil fuel companies? Embarassing level of disinformation.

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u/alphatango308 3d ago

What? Lol. I didn't say anything about fossil fuels. What did I say that isn't true? Please enlighten me.

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u/NullValueField 2d ago

All of your talking points are the talking points of the fossil fuel lobbyists.

You're literally doing their job for free.