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Morgan Freeman Explains To Keanu Reeves Why We Don't Have Free Energy - Chain Reaction (1996) - YouTube (youtube.com)

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I guess the conversation I would like to have is, are we ready? Do you think we have had advancements withheld and held back and is the economy more important than the planet? Personally I feel like everything comes back to monetary wealth getting in the way of global happiness. Star Trek really got that right.

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[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

The reason we haven't seen a lot of results in fusion research is mostly because we haven't spent a lot on it. Here's A Slashdot article from a long time ago. The spending chart hasn't changed much until about the last decade, where we've finally seen some advances.