Neil Degrasse Tyson on Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough

[Alix217]

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[Geek Nasty]

It's not a big breakthrough, it's "gimme funding" hype.

 

[IIVI]

It's not a big breakthrough, it's "gimme funding" hype.

Need way more people like her.

"Scientific" grifters doing way more harm to this country than people realize knowing that the amount spend on funding their cockamamie experiments (that they know are bogus) could be better spent elsewhere.



She sounds pretty optimistic here though, but also realistic in considering costs and feasibility - NGT pretty much echoing the same thing here.

 

[Satsui no Hadou]

Need way more people like her.

"Scientific" grifters doing way more harm to this country than people realize knowing that the amount spend on funding their cockamamie experiments (that they know are bogus) could be better spent elsewhere.



She sounds pretty optimistic here though, but also realistic in considering costs and feasibility - NGT pretty much echoing the same thing here.

I don’t know…the applications are enormous. China is spending a lot of money creating quantum computers, which would be a complete game changer. Imagine if the world used science to fix the world rather than destroying it because we have too many missiles laying around.

 

[IIVI]

I don’t know…the applications are enormous. China is spending a lot of money creating quantum computers, which would be a complete game changer. Imagine if the world used science to fix the world rather than destroying it because we have too many missiles laying around.

It's funny here's her take on Quantum Computing:


When you really look behind everything, you can start to see ho insane our spending is due to fear mongering and the like.

Meanwhile, normal folks out here struggling with medicals bills and 63% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck while these cats keep getting billions on top of billions of government sends their way for funding.



Even Nuclear Fusion from her original writeup in that recent tweet:

Nuclear fusion is a costly enterprise, no doubt. Expenses for the NIF total $3.5 billion so far. Other similar projects in the works are expected to eat up more than $20 billion. But in the past decade, it has also attracted the interest of private investors. After the NIF breakthrough, it will likely draw billions of dollars more in funding from both private and public sectors.

Richard Black, a former BBC correspondent, cautioned on Twitter that generating power from nuclear fusion, even if technically feasible, “might prove prohibitively expensive.” By the time the technology is ripe for commercial application, he said, “many countries will already have virtually removed fossil fuels from their power system. And there will be no point, 15 years after that, in replacing clean and extremely cheap renewables with clean and probably expensive fusion.”

The possibility that we will have mostly decarbonized our economies by the time nuclear fusion becomes commercially viable is not a given. The solar and wind projects we’re building now must be accompanied by sufficient energy storage, and we are nowhere near the capacity we need to scale up these energy sources. It’s also possible that nations will choose to invest more in nuclear fission, which is used in today’s nuclear power plants, to phase out fossil fuels.

 

[Satsui no Hadou]

I mean, you’re not wrong. But they will never worry about money because these advances are used in military tech as well. shyt, they probably already got some of these scientists working on metal gear somewhere already.