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I do.  I am a strong nuclear fusion supporter as well.  2 fusion plants can power the continental U.S.  Anyone?



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if he wants you buying more of Canada's oil, then i support his plan.



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T. Boone Pickens has a pretty good plan, not perfect, but one of the best ones I have seen.



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Sounds good to me.... I haven't looked into it though. Also, is it even POSSIBLE to have a fusion reactor? I read about them in chemistry and they sounded a bit unrealistic.



@Sam Yikin. Yes, we're just not quite there yet.

You'll have to wait a couple of decades at least before fusion reactors become truly plausible as an energy source.



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I support nuclear FISSION :D



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It's not perfect but it would do a lot help the economy and more importantly the EARTH!



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@sam, yes it is possible to have a nuclear fusion reactor. they have one in Europe that all the western world is pouring billions of dollars into. the problem is that it works, but it takes more energy to support it than it puts out, not a good thing. And I don't know much about Picken's plan, but I am sure that the environmentalists and their friends in congress (which numbers way to many) won't let us do anything close to it.



More interesting is his massive investment into Wind Power. This, excusing initial start up costs, will change traditional views on energy production in the US.

Speaking of views, Warren Buffet just invested tons of cash into chinese battery companies in order to store renewable energy from solar, wind, etc for much longer. Baseload power is the ideal. Also, and more importantly for car manufacturing, these batteries will become cheaper and more common in japanese hybrids and hopefully Fords at some point.

Follow the money. Oil is dead and Nuclear, while feasible and beneficial to my country (we have 40% of the worlds uranium), is still in the long term a major waste problem. We are talking about a 200,000 year problem.



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