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Greene Financial Advisory's avatar

Without lithium, there’s no tritium. Without tritium, there’s no fusion.

And lithium doesn’t fall from the sky. It must be pulled, processed, and protected — ideally through trusted corridors that bypass the geopolitical chokeholds we’re already facing.

EVs may be today’s obsession, but fusion is the bigger game — and the same mineral sits at the center of both. The West is starting to wake up to this. Whether it moves fast enough is another question.

Great piece — and important reminder that energy breakthroughs require material strategies.

🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/energysecurityfreedom/p/nuclear-fusion-again-a-recurring?r=5tjncr&utm_medium=ios

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Al Christie's avatar

I hope fusion power can be accomplished and produce practical and economic results, but I'm less than convinced that will ever happen. I've written several times about why I think it's impossible. I don't mean getting some energy from fusion is impossible; it's close - I just mean I don't think it will ever be economical. We can produce Hydrogen and get energy from it, but it's not really economical as a fuel, and IMO it never will be. Here's my understanding of how the laws of physics and chemistry apply: https://alchristie.substack.com/p/nuclear-fusion-and-hydrogen-fuel?

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