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NNadir

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14. No. Not even close. Fusion energy will not be a threat to any major...

Fri Dec 19, 2025, 11:25 AM

Dec 19

...form of energy for decades, if ever.

Nobody really knows how to convert 14 MeV neutrons into exergy (usable energy) even if they can make said neutrons reliably.

I don't oppose fusion research, as there are important spinoffs from plasma science, but the expectations for commercial applications as an energy device have decades of hype to support them and no results.

For now the best and cleanest form of energy is nuclear fission, but much to the happiness of the fossil fuel industry it has been demonized, largely by people incompetent to understand it.

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