Fusion, fission, whatever. The corporations that make disgusting amounts of money have too much to lose and are more interested in keeping their shareholders happy and their pockets lined. The politicians have been wined and dined by the fossil fuel lobbyists here in the US at least. That the world isn't using renewables for most or all or the energy demands already is sad and likely will be catastrophic.

It doesn't matter even if it were true. The dominoes are already falling.

I reached the Reuters site and in the article found the following spoiler:

"...the ratio of energy going into the reaction at Livermore to getting energy out of it needs to be about 100 times bigger to create a process producing commercial amounts of electricity, one of the sources said."

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This is bullshit. The Lawrence-Livermore's Nuclear Ignition Facility was featured in the 1982 movie Tron. They've been tweaking that concept for 40 years and even with the press release, remain miles away from actual break-even. I'm all for science and would love if science and scientists were given all the funding they could use. But, science is budgeted and some projects are much more deserving than others. This announcement is a plea for more money to be spent on a demonstrably unworkable method that will never be commercialized (which should be the goal). Other fusion concepts provide vastly more likely outcomes. This is not the time to be pandering to corruption, even in science.

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