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[quote=GRIZ326,273474]For a while we will "have to pay the piper"  (an expression from an old fairy tale that means we are STUCK)

The world has built a society dependent on oil for power and transportation (and a myriad of other things).

Fusion power MAY be the answer, but commercial fusion power plants are still a decade or more away...so oil will remain king sapping the economic strength of oil enslaved countries.

You can blame this entirely on environmentalists and the environmental movement. From the Wiki, "A general movement against nuclear power arose during the last third of the 20th century, based on the fear of a possible nuclear accident, fears of radiation, nuclear proliferation, and on the opposition to nuclear waste production, transport and final storage."

To be fair...there were two accidents: 3-mile island and Chernobyl. But the environmentalist clearly killed the development of fission nuclear reactors - including a project I was involved with a bit.

Westinghouse was developing a pre-fabricated nuclear power plant with advanced safety controls and process regulated quality control on construction and assembly. Sadly, the cost of the lawsuits and ever tightening regulation forced Westinghouse to abandon the project.

Had nuclear fission power expanded...we would have already been using many, many electric vehicles and we would have developed keystone technologies for the day when fusion power is ready for commercial use.[/quote]

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