Renewables

[stevebowers]

Of course, there's also fusion. Unfortunately, there have been multiple setbacks in recent years, but the work I've seen lately suggests that neither laser ignition, which has consistently failed to sustain a reaction long enough to even come close to break even, nor "cold" fusion, which consistently produces inconsistent results, are completely "dead" as possible sources of future energy.

A CBS News report suggests that scientists are realizing we don't understand nuclear reactions as well as we thought we did.

I don't know what will happen in our real future, but in OA we assume that hot fusion becomes available for power generation in about 2058 c.e., coincidentally a little more than forty years from now (c.f. the old adage fusion is always 40 years away)

The paradox of fusion energy is that it is always 40 years away, and has been for some 60 years.

http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2...r-fission/

Note that in OA cold fusion doesn't work, or at the very least it only provides power at a deficit. Some very odd nuclear reactions could be possible given nanoscale manipulation of elements, but the energy given off will be transient and feeble compared to the energy achieved in a chain reaction or hot fusion reactor.