An introduction to nuclear fusion energy and an exploration of the technologies being researched in 1976.
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'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: https://skepticalscience.com/Waste-heat-vs-greenhouse-warmin...
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 11.6 ms ] threadInterestingly, 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'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: https://skepticalscience.com/Waste-heat-vs-greenhouse-warmin...