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Other than AI, what technology are you excited about? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by MidnightBanjo@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods

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[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Fusion won't be the silver bullet people tout it as for much of the same reasons as fission isn't (mostly politics). No politician wants to spend billions of dollars on something that is going to take a decade to even be functional and another decade to break even. It would get cheaper with scale, but so would fission, we just never let it get there. It also still produces radioactive waste, despite what proponents claim, and it even produces more radioactive waste than a fission reactor by volume. But it isn't as long-lived.

These are the same tired arguments we hear about fission. If your country isn't actively building fission, it's probably not going to build fusion, aside from demonstrations.