So many fusion sceptics in the comments that it sounds like a congregation of anti-vaxxers. Funding for fusion has been ridiculously low for decades and it's exactly because of sceptics with myopathy like the ones present here.
Countries could've been pumping trillions into fusion and other clean energy, together, for years, but we'd rather vote for politicians willing to bomb the oil out of a poorer nation than think more than a decade or more ahead. Now that climate change is finally becoming more of a reality, the myopathic sceptics are turning into temporal sceptics "but we won't have enough time". People like them create the issues we have and every time a solution is proposed, they'll cast doubt.
I'm glad things are moving along at all. I say stop oil, petrol, gas subsidies in every country, and get out of countries you all shouldn't be sticking your noses in. Invest in something that will actually let your grandchildren inhabit a planet with less friction and a much smaller threat to their way of life (climate change, overfishing, plastic pollution, etc.). Stop being so selfish.
The equation of fusion skeptics to anti-vaxxers is an unacceptable slur. We have excellent and incontrovertible evidence of the efficacy and value of vaccines. We have no evidence that fusion can be made practical, and there are well understood arguments for why it will not be.
Fusion is more like the Emperor's New Energy Source, an exercise in groupthink and sunk costing.
Countries could've been pumping trillions into fusion and other clean energy, together, for years, but we'd rather vote for politicians willing to bomb the oil out of a poorer nation than think more than a decade or more ahead. Now that climate change is finally becoming more of a reality, the myopathic sceptics are turning into temporal sceptics "but we won't have enough time". People like them create the issues we have and every time a solution is proposed, they'll cast doubt.
I'm glad things are moving along at all. I say stop oil, petrol, gas subsidies in every country, and get out of countries you all shouldn't be sticking your noses in. Invest in something that will actually let your grandchildren inhabit a planet with less friction and a much smaller threat to their way of life (climate change, overfishing, plastic pollution, etc.). Stop being so selfish.