This is good news for renewable energy

[hunter]

42. Fission works. It's long "off the ground." The technology is well established...

... and relatively safe compared to the fossil fuels which kill people every day and will probably kill billions of people when earth's climate shifts into a state that does not support our current civilization.

Humans have been building fission power plants for more than 70 years. They work.

Do you mean fusion?

For various physical reasons having to do with the very nature of the universe we live in fusion may never be a practical energy resource here on earth, except as it is delivered by the sun.

Unfortunately solar energy cannot support the industrial civilization that we've grown accustomed to, or even the minimal necessities of 8 billion human beings.

My dad's best friend was building components for multi-million dollar fusion reactors when I was a kid. That was more than fifty years ago.

He later turned his talents towards ion engines for spacecraft, which did turn out to have some practical uses.

When I was young and foolish I was an anti-nuclear activist, and quite a radical one too.

Some of that I've written about here on DU.

I'm not any more.

The fossil fuel industry distracts us with false hopes.

The most dangerous energy resource is "natural" gas because people seem to think it is "clean" or at least not so bad as coal. And it supports their renewable energy follies.

Unfortunately there is enough natural gas in the ground to utterly destroy whatever is left of the natural environment as humans have known it and the earth's capacity to support 8 billion of us.