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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by ambrozk on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @10:54AM (#30274128)
This is a very dumb meme that people use to avoid learning anything about the actual hurdles that are currently being faced by fusion researchers. At some point, fusion will be much less than 30 years away, and at that point, I guarantee you that lazy people will still be repeating this joke, because it is literaly the only thing they know about the subject.
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by khafra on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:05AM (#30274269)
"Fusion is always 30 years away" is a heuristic that almost always works. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by Wiseacre on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:38AM (#30274700)
We haven't even been splitting atoms for a full century yet. Give science some goddamn time to work.
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by vbezhenar on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:20PM (#30275222)
20 century progress was so crazy that people got all the kinds of unrealistic expectations.
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by andrepd on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:59AM (#30274950)
Not to mention we haven't invested a fiftieth of what we should have into fusion research.
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by sroussey on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:20PM (#30275221)
More money goes to subsidizing almonds.
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by kaibee on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:56PM (#30275747)
Not reading the article in the link you're replying to is a heuristic that almost always works ;)
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by mcswell on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:08AM (#30297252)
We did nuclear fusion in 1952. Controlled nuclear fusion--and producing more power out than goes in--that's another matter.
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by orangepurple on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:03PM (#30274998)
This is an excellent read, thanks for sharing
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by NoGravitas on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:18PM (#30276088)
"Assuming anything Scott Alexander Siskin says is wrong" is also a heuristic that almost always works.
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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by DrBazza on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:34PM (#30277309)
If only I didn’t do my phd in a department with plasma guys 30 years ago back in the 90s eh?
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