The problem of the Landau pole in QED is of pure academic interest, for the following reason. The role of in Eqs. 1, 2 is played by the fine structure constant and the Landau scale for QED is estimated as 10286 eV, which is far beyond any energy scale relevant to observable physics. For comparison, the maximum energies accessible at the Large Hadron Collider are of order 1013 eV, while the Planck scale, at which quantum gravity becomes important and the relevance of quantum field theory itself may be questioned, is 1028 eV.