If we can make fusion commercially viable, all that other **** becomes obsolete.

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Yes, but that means COLD fusion and that has been elusive.

Not necessarily. There have been impressive strides in the direction of hot fusion, which is much cleaner than fission. Of course, depending on the type of fusion, it may not be entirely clean. If you use Deuterium-Tritium fusion, the result of the reaction is Helium and a neutron. These stray neutrons will embed themselves in whatever atom they come across, usually creating unstable isotopes. In the case of a D-T reactor, the plasma toroid and its shielding generally becomes dangerously radioactive within 5 - 25 years, depending on which expert you listen to. However, overall radioactive waste is still less than a tenth as much as a fission reactor produces, and none of it the high-grade waste that lasts tens of thousands of years. The waste from a D-T reactor would remain radioactive for 50 - 500 years.

Now, a Deuterium-Deuterium reactor would generate no dangerous waste at all as the end product is simply Helium-4. D-D fusion is the ultimate goal of fusion research, but it is known to require much higher temperatures and pressures than are needed for a D-T reactor. D-T fusion reactors are plausible within twenty years; D-D reactors are a possibility within a century or two.

Just some factoids. Sorry for no sources, this is simply things that I've picked up and kept in my store of somewhat useless information. Look it up yourself if you want--I bet you I'm 90% accurate.

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It’s not an all or none proposition. Nukes, solar, hydro, wind, fart-gas, whatever. By being a hard liner against the "evils" of solar power I ma demonstrating the absurdity of the Left in decrying the evils of nuclear, coal and petroleum.

You think you are demonstrating the absurdity of who you are calling the Left. And I would not call Boone Pickens a leftist. You are trying to move this into the usual left vs right, right vs left political arena and it is not that simple.

Boone is doing a media blitz to pre-empt The Lefties from opposing his wind farm. They'll be in court using the exact same tactics as I've demostrated- citing bird kills and regional wind disruption. Oh- and the "eye sores".