Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "BBC News" channel.

  1.  @MrEdnooki  heat is thermal pollution. It skips the middle man and just directly raises the temperature.
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  2.  @shaondash1295  how about we just jail everyone that mints their own currency? Because it is illegal.
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  3. It takes a lot of energy to initiate the process and a lot of energy to contain it. A lot more energy than the reaction produces. But other than that it's great. They're basically trying to train a fish to win the Tour de France. So far there's a few technical snags.
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  4. Fusion energy is a bear walking halfway out of his cave every day. Sure he's making progress but he's never getting out at the rate he's going.
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  5. Let me guess, fusion is just 30 years off? Just like it was 30 years ago.
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  6. People really shouldn't discount coal fired power plants. we already have it, it works, is reliable and has the lowest deaths per kWh of any power source.
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  7. When they can finally reach parity it'll be the ultimate executive desk toy.
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  8.  @Misha-dr9rh  we all saw Back to the Future so we know Mr. Fusion is coming. In the meantime Joe is handing out free crack pipes. So it's all good!
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  9. Clean up in aisle 1.
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  10. We've been able to control fusion for decades. What we can't do is control fusion with less energy than the fusion reaction produces.
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  11. Poland is a NATO member so I don't think Putin is setting a toe on their soil. Article 5 states: An attack on one is an attack on all! Going into Poland would be tantamount to an amphibious landing on Jones Beach. That the USA could not ignore. We'd be there then with bells on. In fact we're there already.
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  12. No waste? Where's the heat go?
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  13. They didn't say it was a net gain of energy. Because it wasn't.
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  14. Yes their super power would be the ability to drop sick burns.
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  15. Membership has its privileges.
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  16.  @michaelclensbury9068  like we couldn't shoot back. We do have some nukes of our own, in case you didn't know. We actually invented the things. You're welcome! We're still the only country that's ever used nukes operationally too. So don't think we wouldn't do it. Because we already have!
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  17.  @michaelclensbury9068  if everyone dies does it really matter? No one's going to miss any of us then. And we'll all be dead. So it won't matter to us. Come on, man everyone dying is peak equity. It just doesn't get any better than that.
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  18. The young people in this video are all smiling because they know they all have long careers ahead of them.
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  19. You don't want to be the Incredible Hulk? What's the matter with you?
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  20. As I understand it making the fuel pellets isn't a particularly easy thing to do. Read they're not cheap.
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  21. It sounded like we'd have a reactor in 20 years 50 years ago too. So everything old is new again!
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  22.  @mrknowhere6457  war has always been our species greatest achievement. Just killing in general. War is just organized killing. But to that end we've created great empires and all they've done. Even this Internet we're both on now was a DoD project. The military values coms highly.
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  23. As of now the elites have nothing to fear.
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  24. I don't think we have to worry about that.
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  25.  @pyroromancer  what climate apocalypse? What are you talking about? The sky is not in fact falling Chicken Little. Double of almost nothing is still almost nothing. I know twice as much can sound like a lot. But when it is twice as much of practically zip then it really isn't much at all. If you have one penny and I hand you another penny you still don't have enough money to buy a piece of gum. It costs a nickel! Although when I was a kid you could get two pieces of gum for a penny.
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  26.  @gentlebabarian  you think the cretin news organizations would honor that? The elements in 0:19 they're calling Russian are actually Ukrainian.
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  27. They've been doing stuff like this for 50 years.
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  28.  @yongewok  maybe for them. China claims to have run for 4 times as long. But time may move differently there?
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  29.  @yongewok  I don't know if you can easily finance a major project without doing some PR.
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  30. The fusion reaction is contained in a magnetic bubble. As far as I know magnetism cannot melt.
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  31. I say increase military spending and steal other nations wealth!
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  32. Those soldering irons suck.
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  33. We don't. Magnetism isn't really a material. It's more of a force.
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  34. All our greatest invention was driven by military development.
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  35. They did not generate any energy at all. They lost energy. They lost two thirds of the energy they put into the reactor. Well, they lost all of it really. The energy released was enough to boil that many kettles but they made no attempt to capture it. You didn't see any boiling kettles, did you?
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  36. Our civilization does not have 1,000 years to work on anything. We'll be lucky if we have 100.
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  37.  @Lobos222  people can be alive and lack civilization. Great civilizations need more than participation awards to thrive. There were plenty of people wandering around in the Dark Ages. They still weren't accomplishing anything of note though. The administrative network to do great things simply did not exist then.
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  38.  @MrLoftusjj3  they all look alike to me from where I'm at. They sound alike too.
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  39.  @JonLondrezos  The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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  40.  @pipMcDohl  hey it's still pretty cool looking. If it was modern art I'd call it a win.
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  41.  @JonLondrezos  but it has destabilized society, has made life unfulfilling and have subjected human beings to indignities.
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  42.  @JonLondrezos  heh you're funny. There's social mobility today. It's all downhill too. Except for the privileged few. There's never been a time with a greater wealth disparity than today. The top 0.1% controls 99% of the wealth. The rest of us are scrambling for the remaining 1% And the only way you can get into such a situation is artificially. Things have to be severely cocked up for what's going on to happen. Yeah we're equal alright. Equally worthless in the eyes of the elite. I mean get a clue. Look what's happening in the world now. The Canadian government is just pissing on their own populace. I watched a video of some cops beating an old man up. Yeah things are just great now! It ain't quantity it's quality.
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  43.  @donenzonen  yeah and we were all supposed to be underwater 10 years ago too. I'll believe it when I see it.
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  44.  @Progan666  who said they were breaking even? There's no way they're breaking even. They're maybe at 33% on a good day.
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