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NNadir

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1. There isn't enough tritium on this planet to run a fusion reactor for a year.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 05:09 PM

Jan 2025

ITER is likely to consume all of it.

What tritium there is is in Canada, a country that will soon wish to disassociate itself with the US.

Fusion energy, while popular, will fail to stop an extreme global heating event because the event underway.

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There isn't enough tritium on this planet to run a fusion reactor for a year. NNadir Jan 2025 #1