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Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says

(arstechnica.com)
425 points nixass | 1 comments | 02 Apr 21 18:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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2OEH8eoCRo0 ◴[02 Apr 21 18:34 UTC] No.26674386[source]▶
Why is fusion ignored?
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sand500 ◴[02 Apr 21 18:38 UTC] No.26674424[source]▶
Because it is always 50 years out.
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drran ◴[02 Apr 21 18:50 UTC] No.26674597[source]▶
Why is the LENR ignored then?
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kergonath ◴[02 Apr 21 19:11 UTC] No.26674857[source]▶
Oh, you again? It’s ignored because it’s bunk.
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1. drran ◴[02 Apr 21 19:22 UTC] No.26674991[source]▶
It's ignored, because most labs in the world cannot reproduce it yet, because LENR is not well understood yet. However, LENR is not dismissed completely, see [0].

My own idea is that plasma micro-bubbles are hot enough to cause nuclear fusion somehow.

[0]: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/scientists-in-the-u...