Competency tests for everyone!
"These are librul questions! The test is BIASED! The hollowcost is a lie! Ain't no Jews get killed in WWII!"
blterrible
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I think you know what he meant, or are you claiming that the "someone" was part of a secret US military program and died in action?
Beyond just trying to maintain a reaction, we'll need a design that allows for the extraction of working energy. At present, all designs require tons of additional energy to keep them cool. We're very far from any design that is power positive in a real sense. Any time you ask one of the fusion fanboys about this there's a lot of hand waving, but I've never seen any actual proposals to extract working heat from the reactor. Any designs that require supercooling are especially problematic. It's really difficult to extract heat capable of turning a turbine through the supercooled magnetic containment.
Fusion will happen, but not before a whole lot more money and time (in decades) disappears into the money pit.
When websites start blocking clients that don't implement the wei handshake, you'll be forced to use one that does if you want to visit those sites. Firefox will either adopt it or become a second rate browser.
US uses far more energy per capita than most countries
Incorrect (for a while now). Did you follow the link in my message?
Of all the countries burning fossil fuels, why does the US get singled out for reparations other than it's a popular punching bag and the "face" of western capitalism? It's not like the US is sitting on stacks of cash. Quite the opposite...
The radioactive component is mostly tritium. As long as they get almost all of the heavy radioactive elements, the hydrogen isotopes are basically harmless in the quantities we're talking about here. The ocean is a very, very big place.