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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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