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The question isn't if, it's when. Furthermore, why do we have to accept that the answer is later rather than sooner. The answer of course can be summed up in one example.
Why doesn't the president announce to the world that we are embarking on a plan to replace oil energy with fusion energy? That announcement alone would cause the price of oil to plummet. Energy would be cheap, jobs would be plentiful, and etc.
Back in the early forties, it took the United States just a scant few years to go from a good basic knowledge of atomic energy to a working bomb. Now we have a very good understanding of fusion energy. (There is a Russian-Italian project called "IGNITER" that can produce a sustained fusion reaction for 4 seconds. The problem appears to be their ability to keep it cool.) I submit that if the United States made it a national goal, such as going to the moon was, we could have a working model in ten years or less.
The understanding/technology is there, the tools are there, so why arn't we leading the way? The answer is OIL keeps getting in the way.
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