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Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times (www.cnn.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ultra@feddit.ro to c/energy@slrpnk.net

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Does Nuclear count as Green Energy? I feel like it should, since it doesn't really pollute and lasts a lot.

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[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fusion has basically nothing to do with climate change. Even if Fusion were cracked tomorrow, the scale out would be such that you couldn't meaningfully supply a lot of base load power before you'd need to be net neutral. My take is that fusion, when available, alongside solar, would be used for carbon dioxide removal.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

Technically the same goes for fission, as new reactors take well over a decade to build nowadays, which is too late for our climate goals and typically diverts resources away from renewables.