Friday morning's 1440 News mailing greeted me with the plain-vanilla headline "BRICS Expansion." Plain-vanilla, that is, unless you know what the BRICS are.
I am convinced the long-term solution to energy sustainability and the “global warming crisis” is widespread use of nuclear fusion energy. My understanding is that proof of concept has already been achieved. Enough energy should be available to provide for carbon sequestration projects on a large scale. We have all heard the aphorism “the Constitution is not a suicide pact,” but your blog quite properly identifies the road we are on to economic suicide, the Constitution notwithstanding. Alas, too few will heed your cry in the wilderness 😢
Fusion has been only a couple decades away since I was in college, which, dare I say, is nigh-on half a century now. The "proof of concept" isn't quite that - they got to net-positive energy in the reaction, but translating that to commercial production is a whole lot more steps forward.
Fortunately, we don't need fusion to appear in order to keep our lives in quality. Modular fission reactors can easily do that for us.
“The expansion of the BRICS bloc should be heeded as a warning, but it won't. Far too few Americans are interested in free trade any more, and far too few take endless deficit spending and the colossal national debt seriously. Both Team Red and Team Blue are on the wrong side of those matters. And, while Team Red squawks about Team Blue's energy suicide pact and the correlated wars on cars, appliances, and other consumer goods, it's hard to take them seriously when they spend like drunken sailors whenever they take the reins of Congress.”
I am convinced the long-term solution to energy sustainability and the “global warming crisis” is widespread use of nuclear fusion energy. My understanding is that proof of concept has already been achieved. Enough energy should be available to provide for carbon sequestration projects on a large scale. We have all heard the aphorism “the Constitution is not a suicide pact,” but your blog quite properly identifies the road we are on to economic suicide, the Constitution notwithstanding. Alas, too few will heed your cry in the wilderness 😢
Fusion has been only a couple decades away since I was in college, which, dare I say, is nigh-on half a century now. The "proof of concept" isn't quite that - they got to net-positive energy in the reaction, but translating that to commercial production is a whole lot more steps forward.
Fortunately, we don't need fusion to appear in order to keep our lives in quality. Modular fission reactors can easily do that for us.
“The expansion of the BRICS bloc should be heeded as a warning, but it won't. Far too few Americans are interested in free trade any more, and far too few take endless deficit spending and the colossal national debt seriously. Both Team Red and Team Blue are on the wrong side of those matters. And, while Team Red squawks about Team Blue's energy suicide pact and the correlated wars on cars, appliances, and other consumer goods, it's hard to take them seriously when they spend like drunken sailors whenever they take the reins of Congress.”