US unveils global strategy to commercialize fusion as source of clean energy during COP28

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25. It's helpful they are on the same electric grid as Victoria and New South Wales.

Surplus wind and solar energy can usually be exported. I'm not saying this is a bad thing.

It's pretty typical in South Australia, as it is in California, that about half of the peak electrical demand in the evening is supplied by gas.

I know this is shifting the goal posts from electricity to total energy use, but over 80% of South Australia's energy use is fossil fuels, mostly oil and gas.

https://www.energy.gov.au/energy-data/australian-energy-statistics/data-charts/australian-energy-mix-state-and-territory-2021-22

Like it or not, nuclear power is the only carbon free energy resource that can support a planetary population of 8 billion people. The world is burning, we have to quit fossil fuels now.

We can't be betting the survival of our world civilization on magical fusion power plants, batteries, or synergies.