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Technologies for a More Climate-Conscious Future
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December 23, 2020
As humanity’s impact on the biosphere becomes increasingly profound, the focus on alternative forms of energy intensifies. Simultaneously, scientists and innovators are working to engineer Earth’s weather and modify the environment to recreate the biosphere in a planned, precise way.
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s far as energy solutions go, nuclear fusion seems to have it all. Like the current nuclear fission power process, nuclear fusion doesn’t use fossil fuels and produces zero greenhouse gas emissions. However, fusion is a cleaner alternative to current fission plants, which run on uranium. Nuclear fusion plants, in contrast, would be able to fuel themselves using hydrogen isotopes, which are both more plentiful and better for the environment, generating less of the harmful radioactive waste that’s produced at fission plants. The amount of energy created during a fusion process is also greater, meaning that fusion plants