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[prosario_2000]

I do agree that the history of technology is full of “good enough” solutions becoming dominant. And, of course, I’m not asking for any technology to be perfect. Focus Fusion is not a perfect technology, but it is very close to the ideal technology we need for the future. Bad news is that when a corporation tells me that it has the best solution, I have to be skeptical and see if it’s true. Corporations are not good when it comes to telling the truth, especially when they want to market their own technologies. That does not mean a corporation a priori tells a lie, but after so much stories of their lies the healthy approach would be to be skeptical, and to wait for people for and against the technology to propose their points of view so I can decide for sure.

About disposing radioactive waste, of course, is one of those elements I want to be sure is going to be what Toshiba says is going to be. Radioactive waste is, despite everything, radioactive waste, and it is harmful in many ways. The ideal technology should not produce radioactive waste. That’s why I favor Focus Fusion because it is a fusion technology that leaves no radioactive waste at all. You only produce ions of Helium nuclei, and that’s it. The rest is converted to huge amounts of energy converted into electricity.

My worry is that if such a technology like Toshiba’s will be available in the future, that people will rely on it and rest on it, while not looking for better alternatives. Society, unfortunately, acts on inertia, which is what has happened with oil and other fuels.