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linucs@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

What scientific discovery, which could actually happen in the next 5 years, would have the most impact in our lives in you opinion?

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What scientific discovery, which could actually happen in the next 5 years, would have the most impact in our lives in you opinion?

linucs@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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    Honestly? A major breakthrough in fusion, or to a lesser extent, any other clean energy. We’ve decarbonised a decent chunk of the world’s energy profile, but there’s a strong financial incentive that politicians are vulnerable to protecting oil and gas, slowing down further decarbonisation. Batteries and supercapacitors also could do the trick.

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      Nuclear is going through a breakthrough and it’s coming along at a neat net zero.

      In a breakthrough experiment, nuclear fusion finally makes more energy than it uses

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        Sort of. It made more energy than the lasers that actually caused the reaction. It still used vastly more energy than that to actually power those lasers. We are still far off but it was a major stepping point.

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