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I feel like a dinosaur at work because many times I have no idea how to use the different programs there, mostly because everything is so incoherent (to me).
And I don’t mean a large living dinosaur cracking trees in two while chasing my dinner.
I mean a bunch of sad brown bones held up by sticks in a dusty museum everyone walks by.
46·4 days agoI’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy?
A graph is not proof of fusion energy. Yelling at clouds would probably generate more net energy than all fusion research has to date.
It’s a dead end. It will never ever work. A combination of civilizational die-back and concomitant reduced energy use and a hodge-podge of renewable sources is the likely future for humanity.
And that’s my optimistic take.
My more realistic take is that we are running out of cheap easy energy. The kind of monstrously massive contraption filled with high-tech exotic materials that is a fusion reactor is exactly the kind of thing we will NOT be able to build anymore in the future.
It’s the same impasse that kills all the space fantasies (like people who think Avatar is just around the corner). If we HAD the resources to build fusion reactors or mine asteroids, we don’t HAVE a resource problem!
And if we have such a resource crunch that we think fusion/space is the only solution, we don’t have the resources to do it.
The future is horses, not Star Trek.
Get used to it.
How about: figuratively tilting at windmills would have generated more net energy than fusion research.
There are fusion reactors that fit between your fingers.
You’re so dense you could fuse hydrogen.
Lol any year now!
ha hahahahaahaaaa… oh boy… you techno utopians are funny. Maybe build a Space Elevator out of 3D printed AI Bitcoins and run a fusion reactor at the Lagrange point? Privately! On the Moon! To colonize Mars and mine the asteroids! Become a multi star species!
OK, time will tell. How about I save you the wait: nothing will happen. At all.
Only 75 more years to go!
16·11 days agoWould you ascribe that to some sudden evolutionary species-wide shift in the human genome?
We’re the same hungry short-sighted horrific apes as four generations ago. And now that the good cheap energy is starting to run out, we will start hacking each other to death for crumbs.
It ain’t the Care Bears out there.
What world did you think we lived in before? Just curious.
Well I’m sure you’ll be heating your place with Venezula heavy sour by next week!
Where are you? That’s what I pay a year, granted I live in a shoebox.
I know if you run out of it you lose wars. See: WWII
I’d fight for it.
Not much of a theory, there was a reason Churchill converted warships from coal to oil.
Do you really really think this was done at the behest of oil CEOs? Hmm.
LOL have you never heard of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act
Oh and guess who isn’t part of the ICC?
I’d like to see these “other countries” drag Trump there. How? With what? This isn’t Star Trek, you can’t beam him mid-poop to the Netherlands.
Ah a nice Chablis in summer is so refreshing!
Oh wow, 500$. So what?