Fusion Power

For the sake of our debate/discussion in my closing and final round I'll elaborate and refocus on the issue at hand. I apologize I find myself profoundly misdirecting my stand points. To address the issue of an artificial intelligence governing over nanotech, I digress, my personal research has found that nanotech will not need any mind or computer governing over it, your right paradox. Back to the realm of nuclear fusion power and its application throughout humanity's future, let's look at today's world, our technology and resources can't alone handle the full sustainability of our civilization. Fossil fuel reserves are declining rapidly, we are consuming more and more each year, oil is expected to run out between 2025 and 2070, that's not much time if you account for the years we've used these materials. We are very much on track with Hubbert's Peak. It'll take us as a whole to be curve our appetite for power and energy, I believe with unlimited power we can do this, learn the appropriate way of dealing with our worldwide crisis. Nuclear fusion power will prevent disasters such as Chernobyl and the Fukushima power plant, due to the fact that it leaves behind low level radiation and in most cases zero radiation. Our president and his administration have proposed and have been approached by a legion of emission researchers to push for nuclear power, though these sites are traditional nuclear plants, these steps are paving a way to unlimited clean nuclear fusion power. The world is quite ready for this breakthrough it's just figuring it out. We are truly on the verge of this discovery, the research centers I mentioned in previous rounds, are facing the major challenges now such magnetic confinement of the plasma produced in the process another challenge in funding. The United States spent up to $290-610 billion since 2010 on energy, of that we spend around $510 million a year on nuclear fusion research and development, with those numbers it has put a strain on fruition. Challenges indeed for us, but that's not the point, the point is this research will be complete before the end of our lifetimes, well within the next few decades. With that amount of power and the problems of today solved tomorrow, mankind will change for the better. As new issues and challenges arise we have the power to back us, development of terraforming and interstellar space travel being in the state of idle they are in, will progress exponentially due to the fact we don't have to focus on fuel anymore we will have harnessed the power of stars. Our whole planet will change, evolve if you will, the universe will be open to mankind. Fusion will help humanity conquer the world, and someday our children will conquer the stars. Mankind as bad as we can be cannot and will not abuse this type of power to the point of our suicide, the applications will solve so many problems, and the blow back or challenges relating to nuclear fusion technology are slim. Allow me to go back to the discovery of nuclear fission, we dropped two bombs, we've had 33 reported nuclear incidents since 1952, one of which was recorded as the worst in history at an INES level 7, Chernobyl in 1986. The nuclear power plant world total as of 2012 was 437 sites operational with 68 sites in construction, nuclear power is growing and growing. The cost of emission reduction is staggering already, though its only a fraction of America's spending, it is driving the race for this technology. It's inevitable for humankind to solely use this power one day and in our truest nature it only gets better, better is nuclear fusion power. References used: http://www.euronuclear.org... http://www.forbes.com... http://climatepolicyinitiative.org... http://focusfusion.org... http://www.princeton.edu... http://www.theguardian.com...