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Fusion: The Energy Promise (1976)[video]

1 pointsby merekover 2 years ago

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merekover 2 years ago
An introduction to nuclear fusion energy and an exploration of the technologies being researched in 1976.<p>Interestingly, they raise the possibility of a global warming doomsday scenario from waste heat due to massive global energy usage. At first I thought this was comical as I&#x27;d never thought of waste heat as being any sort of a contributor to global warming, but apparently it contributes to about 1% of greenhouse warming: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skepticalscience.com&#x2F;Waste-heat-vs-greenhouse-warming.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skepticalscience.com&#x2F;Waste-heat-vs-greenhouse-warmin...</a>