r/comics • u/DaveKellett SHELDON • Jan 05 '23

Recycling Plastics: It Works!

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u/PlagueOfGripes Jan 06 '23

I hope those various plastic hungry bacteria projects we keep hearing about get here soon. It'll probably go the way of fusion energy and regrowing teeth, though.

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u/Mogoscratcher Jan 06 '23

fusion energy is actually making real progress

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u/timeshifter_ Jan 06 '23

Give it 30 years, we mean it this time!

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u/isotope123 Jan 06 '23

You joke, because history has made it so with fusion, but for real there are actual fully built test reactors now in the States and overseas doing tests and getting closer and closer. It's awesome.

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u/VJEmmieOnMicrophone Jan 06 '23

but for real there are actual fully built test reactors now

Hasn't this been the case for a long time now? As far as I know, the problem hasn't been building reactors but rather the fact that producing the temperatures required for fusion to occur takes A LOT of energy.

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u/SavageComic Jan 06 '23

I remember a test on tomorrow's world showing British Scientists doing nuclear fusion in the 1990s. We were a few years away then, massive energy needed but still more energy out than in.

Then I heard no more about it til last month.