331 | One Small Step Towards a Fusion Energy Breakthrough with Charles Seife
The Realignment
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Are the Ideal Scenarios of Fusion Inherently Cheap?
In the 50s, nuclear energy was supposed to be too cheap to meter. On paper, I mean, it's a great technological solution. You just bash these atoms together, boom, energy comes out. But on balance, we choose not to erase that solution right now. It has both political and social consequences that we don't want to live withright now.
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