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If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did? (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reading the original article written in the early 1900s, it’s fascinating that scientists believed that the sun’s nearly infinite energy came from the slow compression of its gasses. (Obviously nuclear fusion wasn’t known back then.) It seems like a reasonable explanation, if we didn’t know better today.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I mean…. Given that fusion is the combining of atomic nuclei it is kind of compression of matter into denser atoms.

It’s a very crude but surprisingly accurate description.