Wind and solar power are expanding across the world’s major economies, as fossil-fuel consumption stagnates. Meanwhile, the US president derides wind turbines as ‘those damn things’
The problem is that it makes money for people who didn’t bribe him or feed the Republican patronage machine, while taking money away from people who did.
I get America is super bad guy now but there is significant fusion research going on here too even if China has recently invested the most. Nuclear energy is just back in style again
The problem is that it makes money for people who didn’t bribe him or feed the Republican patronage machine, while taking money away from people who did.
That can shift very quickly
He has already pivoted his family’s wealth empire into fusion and when his cronies also pivot to renewables (which they are and will) he will too
They probably just want to crash the markets more to buy in cheap
I don’t think the fusion effort is serious; it feels more like a pump and dump scam.
The bulk of fusion research today is happening in China
I get America is super bad guy now but there is significant fusion research going on here too even if China has recently invested the most. Nuclear energy is just back in style again
https://www.iaea.org/bulletin/uniting-countries-through-fusion-research-and-cooperation