Posted on 03/07/2022 10:44:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv
I refute some very optimistic claims about fusion power and discuss some of the challenges in making this long-sought after technology a reality.
Former fusion scientist on why we won't have fusion power by 2040
September 10, 2021 | Improbable Matter
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How does one become a former scientist?
We do have a shortage of dilithium crystals.
Nuclear reaction is over rated. They say the earths gravity is similar to magnetism, if so then does all magnetism, even small magnets apply to Einsteins theory of General relativity
perhaps there is a way to manipulate time as it passes through some sort of crystaline structure enough to create a "exponentially magnetic" power source, now that would be "The Philosophers Stone"
That's easy these days, just go into Biotech
Fusion power has been 25 years away for the last 50 years.
Commonwealth is the foshizzle.
I thought everyone knew that?
But maybe they have recently replaced materials science with gender fluidity studies so who knows
While my oven will do that temp most of the metals I have ever melted were/are diamagnetic.
Interesting
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The magnetic behavior of steels is well understood. The crystal structure changes at ~1420F.
I think a certain poster here on FR is going to be bereft.
He must have intercoursed up.
And just forget about getting hold of any trilithium.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708777/?ref_=ttgf_gf_tt
We had Fusion GPS by 2011 . . .
“How does one become a former scientist?”
Retires, and within a few short years obsolescence creeps in and leaves them with the basic science, but the techological advancements places them behind the curve.
bkmk
You die. Science often advances one dead scientist at a time. A fellow gets so much credibility that the prevailing wisdom can't change until that towering mind crooks . Mendeleev predicted elements and properties with his periodic table of the elements . This gave him enormous prestige. He was ,however , dead wrong about radioactivity. He simply refused to accept elements changing from one to another. His stubborn ways held science back until he was dead and could no longer torpedo anybody who disagreed.
You are not alone. Jules Verne and H G Wells had similar views. Experiments were done and electricity and magnetism became a well known subject.
If there is a Philosopher Stone in this world it is simply freedom and liberty. Once you get out of the way of great minds and let them work unimpeded they produce great things. The problem comes from little minds that think they are so great they can regulate and control the great ones and get Utopia that way.
I was being facetious. I think the use of the word “former” here is inappropriate.
If you had died, using the past tense would be sufficient to clarify that. “So-and-so was a scientist.”
You don’t stop being a scientist, artist or musician when you stop being paid to be one.
Yup
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