Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft

Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by kredd on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:30PM (#35889703)

The general attitude in my circles is none of those technologies have had any positive impact on our or our loved one’s lives. Don’t get me wrong, they’re all “cool and awesome”, but when you put it into perspective of “is life easier” or “has our happiness increased”, my answer would be a strong no.

This general skepticism leads to younger generation to be more cynical, especially when things that have been promised just don’t work out. I can’t really support it with any reliable data, as I mentioned, could just be my circles and nobody else.

Hopefully fusion will work out though! That I’m looking forward to.

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Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by DennisP on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:35PM (#35889772)

Here's one with an impact: one of my relatives was diagnosed seven years ago with stage 4 melanoma, which a couple decades ago was a one-year death sentence. She got three doses of immunotherapy, her tumors shrank, and last year her oncologist said don't even bother coming in for scans anymore, you're fine.

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Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by radicaldreamer on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:56PM (#35890047)

I'm reminded of a coworker who asked what has been more impactful of an invention to humanity than Steve Jobs and the iPhone and was speechless when I was like how about pasteurization, penicillin, or vaccination?

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Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by relativ575 on Thursday May 11, 2023 @08:19AM (#35901065)

Perhaps many of tomorrow pasteurizations, penicillins, or vaccinations may never materialized if their inventors wouldn't have accessed to information at their fingertips, via their smartphones

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