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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 »

dahfizz wrote: post #295
AtlasBarfed wrote: post #102

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What? We have the best bet for sustainable and clean energy. Wind and Solar. They soon will beat natural gas for cheapest unsubsidized LCOE, and considering all fossil fuels are shadow-subsidized, that's huge. Fusion needs to prove is can be cheaper than old-crappy-pressurized solid rod fission first, which is right now getting killed by alternative energy. I was a big LFTR stan for a while. But wind/solar has won. K…

Wind + Solar are near useless without storage, and we do not have anything close to the storage necessary.

Not nessesarily, alternative approach is to overbuild them 10x so thay we always generate more wnergy than we need and have continent spanning super-grid because it's always windy and sunny somewhere.

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Post by advisedwang »

pizlonator wrote: post #319

This is a red flag: "These experiments we've just completed had to work," Situations like this create a pressure cooker of bias. Maybe they got the result they wanted by force of will not because of the underlying science or engineering.

I mean... they achieved the milestone. That seems like an objective fact that isn't really subject to bias.

It sounds like what you are talking about is "motivation" not "bias".

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Post by cletus »

Does deuterium-tritium ("D-T") fusion really have a future?

Net energy output is one thing but neutrons are the big problem. The two issues are energy loss and destruction of the container (aka neutron embrittlement). I see ITER plans to handle this with basically a large, thick absorption layer (steel and water). CFS OTOH is looking at molten salt solutions.

But these solutions seem to be aimed at the embrittlement issue and not really the energy loss issue.

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Post by spockz »

soperj wrote: post #311
throwawayninja wrote: post #308

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Honestly I find Bill Gates a pretty OK dude, all things considered. If you live life without making any mistakes/enemies that means you really didn't live at all.

Anyone who visited Jeffery Epstein's island and has also been removed from the board of directors of the company they started for inappropriate relationship isn't an OK dude. There's also the whole bit with Paul Allen where they tried to take all of his shares when he had cancer.

I read Paul Allen’s biography. There it seemed Gates could be (quite) a bit of a jerk. However, this thing about shares isn’t mentioned.

And was Gates removed from the board of Microsoft? Where did you get that information?

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Post by butterfi »

throwawayninja wrote: post #308
soperj wrote: post #265

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Honestly I find Bill Gates a pretty OK dude, all things considered. If you live life without making any mistakes/enemies that means you really didn't live at all.

Bill Gates is my poster child for "Do the ends justify the means?" I know people who were absolutely robbed by MCSFT and their business practices in the 90's. I'm glad he's using his wealth for good, but that doesn't change how he got the money.
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