Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoNo no no. You just use the fusion to heat the water to make the steam to turn a turbine and then distribute that energy. Boom electric cars are a thing. While it’s technically possible to make a car with 0 petroleum products, it’s not financially viable in the current market.
Oil is remarkably cheap. I always find it funny that a gallon of gas and a gallon of water stay about the same price when one literally falls from the sky for free.
Its not ‘funny’, its the result of enormous structural subsidies for the oil and gas industry for … what like 125, 150 years now?
Brought to you by all the people who preach the merits of the perfectly competitive free market for everyone else.
… Its a multi generational, ongoing crime.
I wonder what Smedley Butler would have to say about the Trump-ezuela operation.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 6 days ago
There are topologies which don’t require steam heating for electricity generation…