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The world!; split topic
Topic Started: May 11 2006, 11:25 AM (1,424 Views)
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What the hell have I been ranting about? Hybrid cars, yes. Hydroelectricity, yes. And Solar power can be stored. As far as I can tell, Fusion is a joke, no one has ever done ('cept some nutters: 'Cold Fusion', Even I can laugh at that.) Okay heres my prediction for 2050:

Oil levels are critical; but no bother: Hybrid Tractors are sowing the fields and super effieccient cars are rolling the streets. Thermal is predominant, but less so: Maybe 60-50%. The rest is Hydropower and some fission. But not for long: Coal is running out; about the same situation as petrol today. The world is panicking and the United Hammer Nations (UHN) orders full speed reasearch in Fusion and lauchs some of Sent's sattilites too, but mainly continues to devolop more Dams, maybe even Tidal Power.
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Is this before or after Jane marries John?

And most of the fusion stuff in Spiderman 2 was fiction right? 'Cause I doubt that they've figured out a way to make it useful for anything other than bombs.
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United Hammer nations? Now you're just making up random crap.
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Nope. No fusion.

Okay, besides from the UHN... one can hope, no?
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They're building a fusion power plant in France. Admittedly, they haven't quite got it to produce more power than it draws yet, but they're constantly refining the design. It'll work.
Cold Fusion is sci-fi nonsense.

Hey, Gladstone? Norway has mountains. That's why HEP isn't viable for the UK.
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They actually have temperatures as hot as the sun's core?
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No, of course not. It's controlled.
The Sun is huge, and the amount of energy it kicks out is equally huge. Fusion power stations simply scale it down to a more manageable level through the use of electromagnetic fields and controlled release of the Hydrogen fuel gas.
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Ahh... and it actually works?
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If you watch the movies.

But who knows, it's a possibility. Nobody knows the outcome of the future anyway...
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Fusion never worked, to my knowledge.
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Fusion works. The only problem is that the current design draws more power for the electromagnetic fields than it releases as useful energy, but that should be relatively easy to fix.
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