331 | One Small Step Towards a Fusion Energy Breakthrough with Charles Seife
The Realignment
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What Would a World Power by Fusion Look Like?
The main advantage of fusion, like vision, is that you are creating energy on demand based upon materials you've gathered. So in theory, if you were able to produce fusion energy on a large scale and cheaply, it would be able to replace coal burning and gas burning and oil burning power plants. And so one could imagine we had this magic solution in 20 years, all of a sudden you have this cheap fusion energy source. It would significantly reduce the carbon footprint as a society. However, that's kind of in the best case scenario.
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