Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2023/the-challenge-of-fusion-power
the desire to tech-fix structural problems is so depressing.
I get it. Scientists are nerds, and if you have the luck that your field of research receives billions of funding, who are you to say no?
But the policy makers responsible for the allocation of these funds... don't these people, like... inform themselves?
Even IF fusion reactors could be developed in a reasonable timespan (and the billions required for research would not just diverti much needed investments into clean and decentralized energy):
A lot of energy is by no means a solution to the transgression of the multiple planetary boundaries (nor does it help against the rise of fascism we are experiencing).
So, I let you here with this nice figure, you all can draw your own conclusions.
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