$5 gasoline, Who cares?

[Saltheart]

When a fusion reactor is finally operated successfully , no oil company or car company etc will be able to get in the way of the utilization of the suddenly massive amounts of energy available. Oil will be relegated to the role of lubrication and a source for hydrocarbons to produce plastics etc. Its role as a fuel will simply disappear in the country where fusion is harnessed.

That's my look into the crystal ball, I may be wrong.

There are so many possibilities that could arrise . Someone bmay find out that rollingb water over grren rabbit turds catalyzes the electrolysis to HHO with no other energy needed. Of course Green Rabbit Turds will go up in value if that happens. I just think that since fusion appears to be the ultimate energy source in our solar system , it stands to reason that it will eventually be the ultimate energy source we harvest.

[Raven]

the future is ALgae

[Mr. Sandman]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

When a fusion reactor is finally operated successfully , no oil company or car company etc will be able to get in the way of the utilization of the suddenly massive amounts of energy available. Oil will be relegated to the role of lubrication and a source for hydrocarbons to produce plastics etc. Its role as a fuel will simply disappear in the country where fusion is harnessed.

That's my look into the crystal ball, I may be wrong.

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You are 100% correct Sir. This is, without question the earths ultimate energy and when it is figured out (and it will be but we will be dead and gone) energy will be basically so cheap it will be a non-issue. Everything will be electric and fossil fuels will not be burned, used for plastics and such as you point out.
I wish the gov't would put some real money into research because this is do-able within a few hundred years. (and oil/gas/coal will get us to this point so I am not worried about mankind)

[Saltheart]

It may be a couple hundred years but it could be much sooner. Some little spark of genius could leap us forward suddenly and maybe unexpectedly far. The human brain is capable of some incredible things. I wouldn't bet against it.