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  • HugeNerdtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Developer appreciation time!
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    19 hours ago

    I feel like a dinosaur at work because many times I have no idea how to use the different programs there, mostly because everything is so incoherent (to me).

    And I don’t mean a large living dinosaur cracking trees in two while chasing my dinner.

    I mean a bunch of sad brown bones held up by sticks in a dusty museum everyone walks by.

  • HugeNerdtoTechnology@lemmy.world•China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossibleEnglish
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    3 days ago

    A graph is not proof of fusion energy. Yelling at clouds would probably generate more net energy than all fusion research has to date.

    It’s a dead end. It will never ever work. A combination of civilizational die-back and concomitant reduced energy use and a hodge-podge of renewable sources is the likely future for humanity.

    And that’s my optimistic take.

    My more realistic take is that we are running out of cheap easy energy. The kind of monstrously massive contraption filled with high-tech exotic materials that is a fusion reactor is exactly the kind of thing we will NOT be able to build anymore in the future.

    It’s the same impasse that kills all the space fantasies (like people who think Avatar is just around the corner). If we HAD the resources to build fusion reactors or mine asteroids, we don’t HAVE a resource problem!

    And if we have such a resource crunch that we think fusion/space is the only solution, we don’t have the resources to do it.

    The future is horses, not Star Trek.

    Get used to it.

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