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Coal Vs Hydrogen Vs Fusion Power

     Recently scientists at Lawrence Livermore were able to push nuclear fusion past the point of getting more electricity out than you put in, and people think that there is going to be some sort of a shift in our power generation. Since the development involved shooting 192 lasers at a single point creating fusion plasma as hot as the Sun, and it was at Lawrence Livermore which is a U.S. government facility focused on military defense, the logical result of this will not be a power plant, this will result in some sort of a weapon like a laser cannon that the United States can use to shoot at things or people.      The future of alternative energy on Earth is not fusion power plants, just like the future of cars on Earth is not electric, because the companies that make money off of charging stations are not necessarily the oil companies, and most importantly because we live in a capitalist world, and any future energy source has to be something that can b...