Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Brian H]

Breakable wrote:

Breakable, I’d normally agree and track with your reasoning — except for the HUGE pressure to become “energy independent” and the HUGE pressure to become low carbon-emitting — and HUGE price difference! This is not a moderate improvement, it’s a factor of about 50.

I would love to be in charge of a PR campaign to pressure authorities and utilities to move fast on this. There are so many killer tools available that it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. They’d never know what hit them!

I am happy with your HUGE amount of optimism 😉 .
You should also notice that what I was targeting was the decentralization, and not the use of focus fusion overall.
The overall usage might be enough to bring enough benefits, for the government to ignore the added benefit of decentralization.
While I agree the potential leverages seems to be plenty, they still would have to be used very efficiently to defeat all the skepticism, fear and inertia.
Nah. The fearful (countries) will go broke, fast, and the brave (countries) will get rich, fast. That should settle it. 😆 😆

As soon as the first reactors are proven to work, btw, I expect OPEC to slash its price to $!0/bbl. To try and save itself.
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Just thought of another benefit/spinoff. Recently (last decade or so) many hydroelectric and other dams have been being removed to permit normal river flows. With FF available, many of the flooded and silted and ruined rivers of the world can be restored. E.g., the Colorado.