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https://www.newsweek.com/nuclear-fus...fornia-1733238
major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California.
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers.
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Ive heard this about 10 times in the last couple decades. I HOPE its true this time, we'll see.
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This is always been the promise of limitless basically free energy. It would be interesting to live in a world that energy production is not a major Geo political force. Of course on the domestic front it would be interesting to find out what the new rationale for trying to control our lives would be.
Somehow I think that I will never fly in a Celera 500 L powered by fusion energy.
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There has GOT to be a downside. There is no free lunch.
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If true, shits about to get real.
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Nothing to see here. The "green energy - no nukes" psychos will make sure this never gains traction. Shut up and go pay $75K for your disposable electric clown car.
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We figured this out in Utah over 30 years ago, in a rinky-dink campus lab no less. This seems too complicated.Originally Posted by Straight Shooter
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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Ponds Flieschman??? IIRC? Those were heady days. Free energy and Hillary Clinton was going to give us free health care. Beer and honey, no cares or worries in my life time….. ?
The Second Amendment ACKNOWLEDGES our right to own and bear arms that are in common use that can be used for lawful purposes. The arms can be restricted ONLY if subject to historical analogue from the founding era or is dangerous (unsafe) AND unusual.
It's that simple.
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By the time we create anything viable (IF) we will have to first pay off decades of R&D. Also this is the first time we've ever even gotten an ignition. That is a long way from "fire it up at will" and make sure it is both self sustaining and doesn't run away on us. If you think our journey with fission was long and costly, you haven't seen anything yet.
BUT...if they pull it off and do it correctly, it will be quite a thing. Of course that was true with fission reactors if we simply respected them and put in real world safeguards rather than feel good safeguards. Fission reactors could have been powering the grid for nickels on the dollar for the last 40 years.
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The fact that we have all these politicians and activists running around like chickens with their heads cut off screaming about clean energy, yet they're not pushing to build more fission reactors, is astonishing. That. Is. The. Solution. It's been here for decades yet they keep crying about not-solutions like wind and solar and lecturing us about saving the environment while they fly around in their private jets, and shut down domestic oil production in favor of purchasing foreign oil which has to be sent over on ships that burn thousands of gallons of fuel per hour.
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