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This tbh. I’d much rather see a push for fission than more hoping for fusion one day. Not that fusion isn’t exciting, but I’m not sure it will deliver on the wild promises materially different than fission already does.

They won’t, and IMO fusion is a perpetually-twenty-Years-off distraction from fission, which would work now.

What massive uncontestable victories does the left have to their name on this issue? How many states get more power from solar and wind than from coal alone - let alone fossil fuels? For the most part, the left wing environmental movement seems to mostly just consist of talking about how they...

Well, there's also... Ah, you covered it.

Eh... I don't really see how many environmental concerns, and particularly the ones the left focuses on, stop at national borders. Like the top environment issue for the left is release of CO2 into the atmosphere. This is the top issue for them by like a few orders of magnitude. That's not...

There was one demonstration reactor in the 60s, then a number of research reactors in the 2000s and 2010s, and some existing plants which can use it. Probably a factor, but there were also a number of other issues, primarily to do with efficiency and fuel cost.

I think we talked about that before in another thread. The mislocated fault was an issue but not nearly as serious one as it was presented as by the media - basically it required relocating something, which was an added expense, but once that was relocated I don't think it ended up being...

Yeah, the issue with these things is that so much of it isn't presenting conservative or right-wing environmentalist positions, it's just trying to get Strange New Respect by conceding positions, and trying to become an authority on which positions to concede. There's little in the way of...