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by pdx rick - 04/14/24 03:23 PM
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via Financial TimesOl’ Joe will make a big announcement on TU 12/13/22 that scientists have figured out how to get a net gain of energy via fusion. Humanity and our planet could use this win. 
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I'm with you on this. I don't think I'll see it, but I hope that my children will. I suspect you are young enough to see it, too. But it'll take 20-30 years to make it viable as an energy production process. Then we'll have to consider all the second and third order effects of relying on it.
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Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity in 1752.
How long did it take before someone could plug into a socket to make things work?
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Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity in 1752.
How long did it take before someone could plug into a socket to make things work? Commercial arc-lighting began in England around 1830, so that's only ONE of the first practical uses of electric power, at least in a public setting anyway. The real reason it took so many decades to implement practical consumer electric infrastructure is because for many decades it was a solution in search of a problem. So for the sake of debate, I humbly suggest a better analogy would be something like "How long did it take after residential electric lighting became a reality for consumer appliances to appear?" What Came First? Electric Appliances Timeline1938 GE unit might be the oldest working fridge in the world. ![[Linked Image from nypost.com]](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/08/americasoldestworkingfridge172946-525x615.jpg)
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