I say that from experience.
Over the decades I’ve watched ideas like this, ideas that will ‘overturn the apple cart’, whether it be a cancer cure, or a new energy source, blaze brightly for a few moments, and then die out, never to be heard from again.
The adds are 1000 to 1 that this will be the same, and that’s unfortunate, as I do believe that there is more than a little truth to the announcement.
I've got some old Popular Science magazines and other old magazines from the 1950s. Yup, fun to look back and see all the predictions of stuff that was to come in a few years but never happened.
“The adds are 1000 to 1 that this will be the same, and that’s unfortunate, as I do believe that there is more than a little truth to the announcement.”
I, too have been disappointed over and over again, with fusion power being 10 years away for the last 50 years. But consider the source here. Seems to me that the organization involved has a pretty good track record of doing “atomic rocket science” that produces real tangible, breakthrough results - and those are only the results that we know about.
I want to learn more about this. IF IT IS REAL, the planet might just have been saved from humanity, at least for the next several hundred years. A heck of a lot of socio-economic problems go away with cheap and plentiful energy.
I STILL believe that Farnsworth’s Fusor could be made to work in an energy-positive manner without blowing itself up, it SEEMS like a maddeningly simple mechanical problem, but no one smart enough to solve the problem has applied themselves to it. I suspect that it will eventually be solved, and millions of armchair engineers will kick themselves for not thinking of it first.
If you believe this I have a carburater to sell, get your car to 1000 mpg.
Over the years I've seen many ideas that had the potential to "overturn the apple cart" and even contributed to a few. Some did.
Are you implying that there is some conspiracy killing them, or simply observing that many don't pan out?
Just curious, really...