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3) This is what I always say about nuclear fusion power: We've got fusion power. We have a functioning, pretty reliable nuclear fusion reactor which can supply all the power we need. And it's 93 million miles away, which is a minimum safe distance for it. So it's sensible that we should devote more of our energy-research attention to developing methods of storing and transmitting that power, over trying to jury-rig ways of replicating bits of the reactor on the surface of the Earth.

4) So if most Europeans can't travel to the UK now because they don't have passports, not needing them to get around the EU, what has been the status of Britons? Were they, when the UK was in the EU, more likely to have passports than other EU citizens? I've heard of eligible Britons rushing to get Irish passports, but is that just a feature story or has there been a mass movement of Britons getting passports (Irish or UK) so that they can travel to the EU that hasn't been replicated in the other direction?

Incidentally: despite the lowering of commercial barriers between the US and Canada, travel barriers have gone up. Before 9/11 a passport was not required for US citizens to visit Canada, but a rule was instituted afterwards. And since the pandemic started, casual and vacation travel across the border has been completely prohibited, a rule only now, I think, beginning to be rescinded. (For most of this, for "Canada" also read "Mexico" but I rarely visit Mexico so I know less about it.)