• KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    No no no. You just use the fusion to heat the water to make the steam to turn a turbine and then distribute that energy. Boom electric cars are a thing. While it’s technically possible to make a car with 0 petroleum products, it’s not financially viable in the current market.

    Oil is remarkably cheap. I always find it funny that a gallon of gas and a gallon of water stay about the same price when one literally falls from the sky for free.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 hour ago

      Its not ‘funny’, its the result of enormous structural subsidies for the oil and gas industry for … what like 125, 150 years now?

      Brought to you by all the people who preach the merits of the perfectly competitive free market for everyone else.

      … Its a multi generational, ongoing crime.

      I wonder what Smedley Butler would have to say about the Trump-ezuela operation.

      … on the other hand, nuclear fusion powered steam engine car… what could go wrong?