[ExI] Nuclear Fusion - Friend or Foe?

[Giulio Prisco]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 8:21 PM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Apologies for yet another depressing article. Sorry!
>
> I've just read a long article (translated from the Italian) by a
> retired nuclear researcher.
> We have been hoping that nuclear fusion might provide lots of cheap
> energy and solve our energy problems.
> He is concerned that the research is supported by the search for
> military applications.
>

Name one important technology that isn't or hasn't been supported by
the search for military applications.

> <https://www.senecaeffect.com/2022/10/the-dark-side-of-nuclear-fusion-new.html>
>
> Quote:
> Basically, research on nuclear fusion, sometimes touted as a benign
> technology able to produce energy "too cheap to meter," is mainly
> justified by its military applications. The search is for an "inertial
> confinement device," something that would detonate without the need
> for a trigger in the form of a conventional fission bomb. These
> devices could cover a range of destructive power that could go from
> tactical warheads to planet-bursting weapons.
> ------------------
>
> Why does everything have to made into weapons for destruction?
> Does humanity have an irresistible desire to commit suicide?
>
> BillK
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