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Originally Posted by kennyc
Oh Wait. I forgot about the end of the world thing!  |
The discovery of genuine cold fusion would
be the end of the world. Post-scarcity makes a lot of capitalists nervous, and a bunch of smaller countries would go BOOM trying to replicate it themselves.
The search would be more productive if instead of "near-room-temperature" they shot for something more practical, like a few hundred degrees Fahrenheit.