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Yep. I always think about the Internal Combustion engine as a concept.....
Imagine if there was no such thing and I proposed that "we can build transportation vehicles that harness explosions of a very flammable liquid". The idea seems pretty absurd, yet we have managed to make it so relatively safe that no one ever really thinks about it.
I think with enough engineering effort (driven by the right economic conditions), nuclear could become something like that.
Its a pity the climate activist created a 50 year war against nuclear that has undoubtedly set us back many decades in advances....
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Important to recognize that it's not just hipster stupidity... but industrial psyops that manufacture, organize, and weaponize that stupidity
Any disruptive technology faces the full might of the old guard industrial complex, just as we see with Banks re: Bitcoin and in deflationary medicines.
One of the most amusing anecdotes I've seen first hand is big energy funding massive opposition to a transmission line from a huge dam on an adjacent grid... all that renewable hydro energy was all of a sudden bad because some trees would need trimmed to widen the transmission corridor for the lines. Psyop'd the population into a referendum against it multiple times over several iterations... same population pissed about having the highest electricity prices in the country
Can't make this shit up.
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There are lots of neat power generation technologies on the horizon.