@grayface_ghost @Andy_European
Also putting my dusty physics hat on β¦
renewables are the only way forward for unlimited, sustainable, & cheap power. (cheap is the key)
Fission-based power is indivisible from political problems of pollution and proliferation.
*But* we should press ahead on fusion, not least for continued spinoffs in metallurgy & materials relevant to advanced recycling, or battery tech, or many other things, before we get to a fusion future.
@BashStKid @grayface_ghost @Andy_European
Agree totally. One point which is very interesting is how hard fusion is even in nature. I melted student's brains by calculating in lectures the rate of power production per cubic metre in the core of the Sun. It comes out at about 50 W/m^3, or about 1/17 the metabolic rate per unit volume of a resting cat.
Conclusion - we'd be better off building power stations powered by cats, except nobody could stand the noise!
@Henrysbridge @grayface_ghost @Andy_European
And that rate of production is a good thing, I like the strong force just the way it is.
Prefer to be far, far away if anyone learns to fiddle with that.
@BashStKid @grayface_ghost @Andy_European
That's right - a stronger strong force and the first step of the proton-proton chain (mediated by the weak force) would be faster, and probably all H would have been converted to He very early in the universe.
@BashStKid @grayface_ghost @Andy_European
That's right. All the other elements would be messed up too, so goodness knows what everything else would be made of!
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