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RE: Cheap Clean Energy
May 3, 2014 at 8:07 am
If we get fusion by 2050, then expect a hybrid fusion/fission reactor by 2150. Then expect the Earth to be a flaming fireball by 2162, shortly after the Chernobyl Hybrid Reactor goes online for the first time.
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RE: Cheap Clean Energy
May 3, 2014 at 3:12 pm
(May 3, 2014 at 12:54 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (May 3, 2014 at 8:07 am)Tonus Wrote: If we get fusion by 2050, then expect a hybrid fusion/fission reactor by 2150. Then expect the Earth to be a flaming fireball by 2162, shortly after the Chernobyl Hybrid Reactor goes online for the first time.
Actually, the hybrid seems easier to achieve than a pure fusion reactor.
So we'll all go up in smoke a few years earlier. Shit, there goes my 90th birthday party.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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