More like grouchy Marx, amrite?? Eh? Eh?

I’d talk to you if you were on the map 👍

Be the change 😎

In sum, these guys at EAST got the Greenwald limit elevated in their tokamak, which indirectly influences the Lawson criterion: nTTau, density * time at said density * plasma energy released. Lawson is the master finish line for measuring whether a fusion system can actually make more power than it consumes.

To date, when you cross the Greenwald limit, the man/woman in the operators seat should expect the plasma inside the device to become uncontrollable, hurting the reactor by touching the walls or instruments inside, a so-called “disruption”. Only a few topologies like the stellerator can exceed the limit, and so far, only by 5x.

But here we have a way to exceed the limit in the much more researched tokamak. This research has positive impact for all but the weirdest/niche fusion devices.

There are topologies which don’t require steam heating for electricity generation…

Unlike this captain positivity’s social life, fusion is making some sizable strides forward in short order.

I design diagnostics going into systems like these, there’s a lot of positive news coming our way.

Helion’s gonna have some problems though.

What a low quality joke. The humor was bad too.

They have extremely poor diagnostics on their plasmas on top of everything else.

Thanks for the link.

Based on usage and spelling in my hometown of NYC, it’s always been RAP, as shown in the second example (presuming journalists of yesteryear knew how to spell).

Presuming it was autocorrect, but it should be RAP, record of arrests & prosecutions.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rap sheet#dictionary-entry-1

Their tools still used calculus, just indirectly and without their understanding.

Importantly, I replace dy/dx with ∆y/∆x when I need a really quick sanity check for simple calculations.

How about “dreck”.

Fuck you Israel.

The x-ray dept 🤢

Bro I thought I was the only one thinking that 😂

Choke to death on your mother’s bile.

My favorite thing to do some cold nights back in the day. They don’t usually leave the station lights on… but once in a while ya get lucky.

Right? Like, what in the fuck?

Bye, assholes.

… Wow. That’s… Wow. An extreme warning sign for me in my work.