Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes

Re:Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for ... by Eji1700 on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:52PM (#37093863)

This take is even more baffling to me than the original question.

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Re:Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for ... by sdwr on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:33PM (#37111475)

Let me break my logic down:

Assumptions:

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1. The average commenter here (me!) knows a little about nuclear fusion, and a lot about online tech news.

2. There are no new ideas.

Background:

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This big science project is overbudget, making incremental progress, and the timeline is stretching to forever.

That is incredibly similar to the state of rockets 10 years ago - publically funded, making little progress.

Leap of logic:

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Somewhere in his subconscious, OP pattern-matched to the only big successful science project in the news recently - SpaceX.

But the subconscious no good at talky talky, and OP didn't trace the train of thought, so what came out was "Shoot them into space".

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