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> 1 million old technology (burning)

AFAIK nuclear is older than oxidation/burning.

On a more serious note, burning has been a source of power only since about the steam engine, so about 300 years.

You are discounting cave man with camp fire. Also nuclear _technology_ as of being controlled by humans is not as old.

I’m pretty sure the parent is pointing out that the chemical combustion in eg a caveman’s campfire required many millions of years of stars performing nuclear fusion to create any elements with higher atomic numbers than 2, oxygen included.

I agree. I am talking about technology as of what humans control. Humans do not control this -> "many millions of years of stars performing nuclear fusion to create any elements with higher atomic numbers than 2"

Oh, I read it as a reference to natural fission reactors, like the one found at Oklo.

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