Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
by KingOfCoders on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @10:06AM
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"but I feel that the fusion scientists have no problem silently playing along this misconception"
That is the way to keep the money flowing.
See
"How close is nuclear fusion power?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY
and (different area but about how high investment physics works, "just around the corner")
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
by limaoscarjuliet on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:54AM
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Plus, this is about 10-th time in the last 10 years we are told "we are around the corner, clean energy will save us". Please tune down the message.
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
by fidelramos on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:39AM
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I like how this graph describes why nuclear fusion technology always seems to be "just around the corner": https://imgur.com/a/59NO34a
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
by cptaj on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @10:01AM
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I really hate what hippies did to nuclear energy. We would've long solved the clean energy problem by now if they hadn't violently opposed anything with the word nuclear
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
by galuggus on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @10:27AM
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nuclear energy is an existential threat to the green movement
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
by bheadmaster on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:07AM
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green movement is an existential thread to nuclear energy
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
by fnordpiglet on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @01:57PM
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If they could explain how fusion energy can kill more people than fusion bombs funding would be unlimited.
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
by fnordpiglet on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @01:59PM
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Maybe the corner is just a very long one, but one that’s so important to turn any material progress is important news? I think post scarcity is monumental.
Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
by vixen99 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:31AM
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A long history indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak
To be fair, that's not entirely the fault of HN. It's hard to get excited about fusion research when I almost always feel mislead, because it is almost never explicitly stated that we are talking about Q-plasma here. I don't expect much from science journalism, but I feel that the fusion scientists have no problem silently playing along this misconception, which they are perfectly aware of.