[Kitdy]

Originally Posted by NSXType-R

Hardly. Unless you were able to create the electricity in a green way, it wouldn't be green at all. Coal fired plants create most of the energy, in the US, at least.

Billions of dollars are wasted on stupid shit like the space station, space exploration, even green technology like geothermal and wind power is pretty much useless - maybe. The true path is fusion. The ITER next generation fusion plant is gonna cost about 10 billion dollars, or about 1/10 the cost of the space station and it is predicted by some to be the last experimental reactor before we begin to see limited implementation of production fusion reactors. When the price drops, fusion will be the answer to the Earth's energy problems. If we can implement widescale fusion reactors across the West, then emissions will be reduced to such a degree that has never before been seen. Coal plants, fission plants, hell even other green plants like natural gas, hydroelectric, etc, will all no longer be viable.

If we're gonna spend money on cleaning up our emissions, let's develop this technology and maybe within 50 years we'll see it in use.