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Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

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Re: Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

soperj wrote: post #294
ambrozk wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? He dedicates huge amounts of money to worldwide public health, and is giving away the vast majority of his fortune over the course of his life. Why shouldn't I hold such a person in high regard?

From other comment > I mean, start with why his wife is divorcing him (Jeffery Epstein) and why he's no longer on the board at Microsoft(inappropriate relationships with staffers), then go into how he's screwed up public schooling in the US, then Microsoft under him. That's the easy stuff that you can see publicly.

Whats with public schooling? I havent found anything that looks relevant

Re: Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

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Post by johnthesecure »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #297

> It's not a massive energy output - only enough to boil about 60 kettles' worth of water. This made me laugh. How much more British can you get?

That's enough energy to boil those kettles dry, if my calculations are correct. To bring them to the boil, 59MJ would run about 600 kettles.

Re: Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

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Post by wowokay »

soperj wrote: post #294
ambrozk wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? He dedicates huge amounts of money to worldwide public health, and is giving away the vast majority of his fortune over the course of his life. Why shouldn't I hold such a person in high regard?

From other comment > I mean, start with why his wife is divorcing him (Jeffery Epstein) and why he's no longer on the board at Microsoft(inappropriate relationships with staffers), then go into how he's screwed up public schooling in the US, then Microsoft under him. That's the easy stuff that you can see publicly.

True, we should discount all his contributions and hold him a accountable for his past actions right? Man I'm glad the rest of us never make mistakes and have all contributed so much more then him..

Re: Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

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Post by [deleted] »

soperj wrote: post #294
ambrozk wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? He dedicates huge amounts of money to worldwide public health, and is giving away the vast majority of his fortune over the course of his life. Why shouldn't I hold such a person in high regard?

From other comment > I mean, start with why his wife is divorcing him (Jeffery Epstein) and why he's no longer on the board at Microsoft(inappropriate relationships with staffers), then go into how he's screwed up public schooling in the US, then Microsoft under him. That's the easy stuff that you can see publicly.

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Re: Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

yholio wrote: post #284
Aperocky wrote: post #248

> This is more than double [the energy] what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997. I was excited for a little bit there.

Yup, a major breakthrough in this glacial field is doubling the energy output in 25 yeas. So by the time captain Picard is born, we might have a very expensive and massive fusion reactor that will generate the same kind of energy we can generate today with very expensive and massive fission reactors. Really now, this is pure garbage and does not solve the major problems in the field nor do most of the myriad startups…

"with very expensive and massive fission reactors"

The laws if physics don't owe us a free lunch. Light, safe and cheap powersource does not exist

Fossil fuels aren't a power source, they wre a power store - that power was collected and millions of years ago.

Also 100% productivity on 25 years is quite good - what did combustion engines improve in that time, 5%?

Re: Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

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Post by ComputerGuru »

johnthesecure wrote: post #303
ComputerGuru wrote: post #297

> It's not a massive energy output - only enough to boil about 60 kettles' worth of water. This made me laugh. How much more British can you get?

That's enough energy to boil those kettles dry, if my calculations are correct. To bring them to the boil, 59MJ would run about 600 kettles.

Maybe they meant from a frozen solid state?

Re: Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

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Post by soperj »

wowokay wrote: post #304
soperj wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From other comment > I mean, start with why his wife is divorcing him (Jeffery Epstein) and why he's no longer on the board at Microsoft(inappropriate relationships with staffers), then go into how he's screwed up public schooling in the US, then Microsoft under him. That's the easy stuff that you can see publicly.

True, we should discount all his contributions and hold him a accountable for his past actions right? Man I'm glad the rest of us never make mistakes and have all contributed so much more then him..

I'm sorry, but if the Queen can disavow her own kid for his affiliation with Jeffery Epstein, and Bill's wife can do the same, we can disavow Bill Gates. Just because he has money doesn't mean a damn thing w/r to whether we have to hold him to any regard. He's proven over decades to not be a good person. There's a reason Paul Allen ended his relationship with Bill Gates.
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