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Old 02-23-2013, 02:57 PM   #1773
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A network of fusion reactors would eventually result in an almost unlimited supply of cheap electricity. This surplus of power would finally make a hydrogen infrastructure possible, and finally make the hydrogen fuel cell practical for transportation. This would be the death knell for the fossil fuel economy. The best application of this technology would be desalinization, which if done on a large scale would bring fresh water to desert regions and could even be used to rehydrate depleted aquafirs.
Those are all great ideas, the problem lies in the fact that the actual cost of the electricity isn't the main thing holding all those ideas back. Having a nearly unlimited supply of cheap electricity isn't going to solve those problems.
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