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Originally Posted by VashTexan
Nuclear fusion reactions, on the other hand, are much less developed. There are several fusion reactors already built, but they're only used for research. They're trying to find out everything they can about it and how to harness enough energy from the fuel needed to produce the reaction, cost-benefit analysis, maintaining the reaction, etc. But, it doesn't look like anything practical will be put into use for perhaps 50 years or more...
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That's a real shame. A vast energy supply that can serve all of humanities needs, while at the same time being cleaner than fossil fuels and nuclear fission, is what we need right now. but you're right, it just isn't tenable right now.
And then there's a second problem beside that.
Who would benefit from it? How long, if ever, would it take for the entire world to benefit from such an energy source.
Nuclear fission reactors have been around for over 60 years, but I don't see many third world countries have any. Although that is probably attributable to research into nuclear being easily changed into nuclear weaponry (But we're not talking about the world's balance of power) and most just can't afford it either.