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NNadir

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16. Really? Edison ran a coal plant in 1844, three years before his birth?

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Reply #15)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 10:59 AM

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He really was precocious.

It is a sad reality that there are people on this planet who can't tell the difference between combustion and nuclear fusion.

We don't need fusion. We have fission, which works spectacularly well.

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How U.S. states can attract fusion power plants: A new CFS white paper [View all] OKIsItJustMe Mar 16 OP

Coming soon - "How US States Can Attract Herds Of Unicorns" hatrack Mar 16 #1

This is not some start-up run by dreamers OKIsItJustMe Mar 16 #3

Right. I would have said to the naysayer "Can't we have a little optimism?" FadedMullet Mar 16 #4

Well, as optimistic as I am that we will have commercial fusion soon... OKIsItJustMe Mar 16 #6

Given our new reality of server "farms" popping up everywhere, you're probably right. FadedMullet Mar 16 #7

So, imagine we can snap our fingers and tomorrow have a fusion-powered grid OKIsItJustMe Mar 16 #8

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

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

This is a press release, not proof of concept or a peer-reviewed scientific paper . . . hatrack Mar 16 #11

One of these fusion startups is in WA thought crime Wednesday #21

It's the 75th anniversary of the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. NNadir Mar 16 #12

And Edison made a coal burning plant in 1844 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday #15

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

A Star in a Bottle: The Quest for Commercial Fusion OKIsItJustMe Mar 16 #5

Energy as limitless abundance will outpace all other inputs bucolic_frolic Mar 16 #2

Hmmm lonely bird Mar 16 #9

The direct product of the fusion reaction is heat OKIsItJustMe Mar 16 #10

Sure lonely bird Tuesday #13

The great breakthrough of this design OKIsItJustMe Tuesday #14

How are they generating the hot plasma? lonely bird Tuesday #17

Multiple methods are used to initially heat the plasma OKIsItJustMe Tuesday #19