- The future of energy
- Sci-fi bullshit
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I would love it to be the future of energy but itâs still sci-fi bullshit at this point.
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so in summary, my energy bills will be lower tomorrow and I can crank the heating?
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I can never remember which one is fusion and which one is fission
I am still waiting for the car I saw on Tomorrowâs World that had lifty up 80s doors like nightrider but that opened with your fingerprints.
Until we get that car technology is on hold
(looks like there was talk of one in 2019 BUT no lifty up 80s doors)
Headline getting a bit ahead of itself there
And there is another point: the positive energy gain reported ignores the 500MJ of energy that was put into the lasers themselves.
Am I missing something or isnât the point that once you scaled up, the reaction would become self sustaining and that kick-start, as a one off need, isnât relevant?
I had the idea for near-limitless energy years agoâŚ
fission is the one that exists in reactors on earth
fusion is the one that they want to exist in reactors on earth but mainly exists in the cores of common stars
Fusion is the food of the future, fission chips is a food of the past.
I remember Tomorrows World saying that we wouldnât have televisions or screens by now. Would just beam everything into our eyes using a little laser. Still not happened
LIARS!
Re-open the fusion mines in this country I say.
I put sci-fi bullshit, even though I can see the strides being made and theyâre really significant. I did an interview ages ago with a guy who worked at one of the US test reactors and he was extremely excited in an insider-y way about the progress they were making, and it is really exciting, but it remains a long, long haul. Also, itâs not easy to build these things at scale and I donât know about the availability of the raw materials, particularly in a potentially more conflict-riven world. So yeah, would love it if it happened, but Iâm not sure with the best will in the world I see it happening any time soon if at all, which is sad.
Anyone with more and better info, come and lift my cloud of pessimism please thx
And fishinâ is the one I canât get my damn husband to stop doing!
They do address it in the article, in fairness
However, Chittenden stressed the NIF was designed for a scientific demonstration, not as a power plant. âThe efficiency of converting electrical energy to laser energy was not a factor in its design,â he said.
Itâs a big step forward, just still nowhere near being able to use it to generate large amounts of power in practice as implied by the headline
Finally, now I can get that pesky Science Win in Civ VI.
Oh yeah like weâd be allowed anything ever that doesnât cause abject misery.