People will research the climate irrespective of the issue of global warming. We did in the past and we will in the future. So I'm not sure how fusion research impacts climate research.
If you are suggesting that the problem of global warming vanishes with the invention of a fusion power source, you're right ... but only if we replace fossil fuel plants with fusion plants. And the issue there is that the sources Lockheed Martin are talking about are small on a global scale!
It would continue. The concept is not that man's contribution by itself is enough but that man's contribution is enough to start a cascade of natural feedback loops. It's analogous to pushing a boulder off the top of a hill, once it starts rolling, it would take a lot more than just stopping your pushing to stop the boulder.
Besides, you obviously have no idea as to how difficult fusion really is without actually blowing things up. After more than a generation of effort, and trillions invested, we're only at the verge of theoretical breakeven and that's with multiple buildings of cryogenic refrigeration to support superconductors and multiple buildings of lasers. Defense contractors like Lockheed always proposes ridiculous vaporware, beside deuterium, and helium 3 are not that common on Earth, in Jupiter's atmosphere, sure but you have to go through a lot of seawater to fuel commercial fusion reactors.
If you want a safe clean nuclear option that can actually be done with a respectable budget, look at Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors.
Harry, you're an idiot. We produce absurd amount of Co2 and other greenhouse gasses. Average global temperature has already risen relative to the long term trends we have seen from ice core samples and other methods.Fish body size has declined from environmental pollution. An argument from consensus can easily be made in favor of climate change (arguments from consensus are not fallacious when there is widespread agreement among most of the relevant experts). There is a consensus in the scientific community that human actions are affecting the climate. Do your research, and by research I mean research into empirically valid scientific research, and not the conservative media and FOX news.
Tell ya what, why don't you go find even 1, one single climate researcher that wouldn't like to see a reliable, safe, source of energy. Just 1.
That said, I'm not about to go put my money in Lockheed's fusion generators.
That's a long shot at the very least.
If
1. The T4 fusion generators actually work
2. The power they produce is cheaper than coal
3. The power they produce is cheaper than oil.
The "warmers" will say, "Problem solved."
John W
And even better idea; rather than using an unproven design, like Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, use the proven CANDU reactor.
http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2...
Well, I'll believe it when I see it. Fusion is always the energy source of the future. There are still problems with D+T reactions, there are neutrons flying around, so the containment becomes radioactive and degrades. There is also still waste heat, so if are global energy use continues to rise that would also be a source of global warming.
I don't put my trust in what scientists say all that do base there facts in guess not stupid enough to. I don't care what Odumber and his two to environmental idiot s say I would never believe in it. We need co2 to live without it were dead and so is life on this planet. The polar ice is getting bigger not smaller some scientist said it. Our earth is very active so weather will always be fluctuating temperature wise.
When it comes to fusion there is a lot more hype than verifiable results. It is similar to man climate change in that regard.
If nuclear fusion becomes viable then fantastic. I'm not sure if alarmists would be happy or not since they don't live in reality in the first place.
Wouldn't make any difference. The greenies would come up with another phony scare. After all they have an agenda to maintain.
Quote by Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose."
A satisfied group of people is hard to manipulate.
"Wow just think an end to climate research"
only a pawn of the conservative movement would be anti-science, anti-research, anti-thinking.
you don't realize how scared and controlled you are.
Lockheed Martin's compact T4 fusion generators succeed, Wow just think an end to climate research, and what will the greenies do? how about the politicians, how will they scare us, control us?
The implications are mind boggling.
Don't be worried the world produces much more CO2 from volcanoes, natural gases and animals over thousands of years compared to our cars and factorys
That would be nice. Greenies would spend more time on easier topics.
Deniers would focus on that commie Kenyan that hates America.
its beyond that
