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OKIsItJustMe

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8. So, imagine we can snap our fingers and tomorrow have a fusion-powered grid

Reply to FadedMullet (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 08:09 PM

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It has all of the capacity we need to replace our current grid, and support the AI farms being built, as well as the damned cryptocurrency “mining" operations… the whole shootin’ match.

Currently, generating electricity is responsible for roughly ¼ of our greenhouse gas emissions…

OK, so, EV’s, another snap of our fingers, and everybody switches to electric (or hydrogen) powered vehicles. Every car, every bus, every train, every plane, every ship that sails the seas. That covers (roughly) another ¼.

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How U.S. states can attract fusion power plants: A new CFS white paper [View all] OKIsItJustMe Yesterday OP

Coming soon - "How US States Can Attract Herds Of Unicorns" hatrack Yesterday #1

This is not some start-up run by dreamers OKIsItJustMe Yesterday #3

Right. I would have said to the naysayer "Can't we have a little optimism?" FadedMullet Yesterday #4

Well, as optimistic as I am that we will have commercial fusion soon... OKIsItJustMe Yesterday #6

Given our new reality of server "farms" popping up everywhere, you're probably right. FadedMullet Yesterday #7

So, imagine we can snap our fingers and tomorrow have a fusion-powered grid OKIsItJustMe Yesterday #8

Jeez, where does the other half come from? I know it's not cow farts. FadedMullet 4 hrs ago #18

Well, actually, some does come from methane from cows, although they generally belch it out OKIsItJustMe 2 hrs ago #20

This is a press release, not proof of concept or a peer-reviewed scientific paper . . . hatrack 21 hrs ago #11

It's the 75th anniversary of the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. NNadir 21 hrs ago #12

And Edison made a coal burning plant in 1844 OKIsItJustMe 9 hrs ago #15

Really? Edison ran a coal plant in 1844, three years before his birth? NNadir 9 hrs ago #16

A Star in a Bottle: The Quest for Commercial Fusion OKIsItJustMe Yesterday #5

Energy as limitless abundance will outpace all other inputs bucolic_frolic Yesterday #2

Hmmm lonely bird Yesterday #9

The direct product of the fusion reaction is heat OKIsItJustMe 23 hrs ago #10

Sure lonely bird 11 hrs ago #13

The great breakthrough of this design OKIsItJustMe 9 hrs ago #14

How are they generating the hot plasma? lonely bird 5 hrs ago #17

Multiple methods are used to initially heat the plasma OKIsItJustMe 3 hrs ago #19