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[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

How ks the drill baby drill crowd going to compete against mini stars in a can?

Lmao. Fucking oil losers

[-] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 18 hours ago

Well, if I lived in the world of American liberals and conservatives I was taught about growing up, the game would be over the moment fusion power became cheap, and everybody would be happy.

In the real world though? We’ll wait way too long, then get excited when it finally starts to happen, and then right before The Big Day some smooth brained asshole will blow up part of the reactor or fly a plane into the facility or something.

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 8 points 23 hours ago

Idk dude, we already have the sun and wind but they hate that stuff too, despite it being very close to free. Hell they'll probably bitch about fusion causing a surplus of power outside peak loads.

If it doesn't perpetuate the broken ways we currently do things it doesn't give their buddies money, so it's woke or something else bullshit.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Plastic Straws. Plastic cups. Wrapping indvidual food items in plastic and then putting them in a larger plastic bag which you carry home in an even larger plastic bag.

[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

The food has been impregnated with microplastics as well. This machine runs on sugar, but someone put oil in the tank. :-/

[-] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 4 points 18 hours ago

The ironic thing is the human body runs on fat and a huge portion of our illness stems from the insane amount of sugar we consume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cST99piL71E&list=PLE8LmUoWei5Qp5Nz7C4FMNs6hGNx7M3Jg&index=2

Summary: In 1984 our group published the first modern study of the effects of adapting to a low carbohydrate high fat diets on athletic performance. I have spent the next 31 years expanding on this research. In my presentation I will present the results of that research program and conclude with our exciting new evidence for the role of low carbohydrate diets and ketosis in the prevention of whole body inflammation in athletes training daily at very high loads. I will also present evidence to show that elite ultra-endurance athletes have an unexpectedly high capacity to oxidize fat during exercise and so potentially to run at fast paces for prolonged periods without the need to ingest exogenous fuels.

The 1928 Bellevue Stefansson Experiment McClellan W, et al. JBC 87:651,1930 http://www.jbc.org/content/87/3/651.f... Keto-adaptation Demonstrated Vermont Study Phinney et al JCI 66:1152, 1980

[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Thanks for sharing. As a frequent cyclist who loves cheese and doesn't drink soda or eat many sweats, I feel like this will be an interesting read.

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 18 hours ago

How ks the drill baby drill crowd going to compete against mini stars in a can?

Nu-Cu-Lar Bad? That's...about as far as they'll make it. To be fair, that might be as far as they need to. It's all the oil companies will approve of them learning, at least.

Of course, it sounds like the big problem of how to remove more power from it than you spend keeping it reacting remains an issue, presuming they can continue to extend reaction lifetimes to be functionally unlimited.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Amazing news!

[-] ian@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

They should get out more.

[-] vastlyimproved69@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago
[-] match@pawb.social 103 points 1 day ago

1,337 seconds? That... that number used to mean something, but now i can't recall what...

[-] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

1 I>0|\|+ |<|\|0\/\/

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I still use 1337 sometimes, for joke names like 1337h4xX0r, or I use 1337 where others would use 42 or 69, but it's always that nobody gets it. How could past internet culture vanish like that?

[-] canajac@lemmy.ca 5 points 22 hours ago

All your base are belong to us

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago

Move zig move zig move zig, you know what you doing take off every zig!

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[-] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago

France's 22-minute plasma reaction is a bold stride toward sustainable fusion energy but remains experimental.

🐱🐱🐱🐱

[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 38 points 1 day ago

Well, I'm still skeptical, but I have far more trust in France's reporting than Chinese claims.

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

So just blatant Sinophobia.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, just like all that anti-white sentiment towards the US because we elected a president who almost passes for off-white.

Though I suppose there could be other reasons if we dig deep enough.

[-] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

China: Spews blatant and obvious lies about everything that does or does not cast a shadow. Heavily censors any source.

Some guy: I don't trust information coming from China.

China (and shills): That's sinophobic!!

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah. Surely we can believe the anti-China stuff! Our own government wouldn’t lie to us! /s

[-] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I never said "our" Government wouldn't lie to us (unless you're Chinese, in which case they definitely will). I just said that the Chinese government constantly lies, which is easily seen by anyone with eyes.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They're part of the same global research effort.

Nice jingoism tho

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago

China had a long history of fraudulent science that they need to dig out of to gain a good reputation.

[-] cybersin@lemm.ee 5 points 21 hours ago

Because a shit ton of fraudulent science hasn't come out of the US or Europe. Nope. No sir.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 18 hours ago

Do you know what "collaboration" means?

It's almost like they've got peers all over the world looking at their data!

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

huh, I learned a few new words today

for others who want to know

  • Jingoism: noun

    1. Extreme Nationalism characterized by a belligerent foreign policy

    2. A bellicose patriotism; aggressive chauvinism; belligerence in international relations

  • Bellicose: adjective

    1. warlike or hostile in manner or temperment

    2. inclined to war or contention

    3. warlike in nature/aggressive;hostile

  • Chauvinism: noun

    1. Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism.

    2. Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind.

    3. Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.

[-] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 26 points 1 day ago

TIL not believing a genocidal dictatorship is extremist nationalism

[-] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Don't you DARE disrespect dear leader!

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 24 points 1 day ago

Who's talking about America?

[-] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

America doesn't have a government. It's a continent. Are you possibly referring to the USA?

[-] epicstove@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago

In North America they teach that North America and South America are 2 separate continents.

When someone refers to "America" in the contexts of countries they 9 times out of 10 mean the US. Since people from there usually call themselves "Americans" rather than "United statians"

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[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

I hope it smoked a cigarette once it finished.

[-] DataDisrupter@feddit.nl 56 points 2 days ago

I didn't see any mention of the output in the article. 22MW injected, but does anyone know if the reaction was actually generating a positive output?

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago

Sounds like the goal of the test wasn’t to vet ignition power in relation to output. These people are testing the durability of system designs that can maintain a reaction after ignition.

If this was a car, they wouldn’t be testing the fuel efficiency, they’d be testing how long they could drive before the wheels fell off.

[-] sushibowl@feddit.nl 81 points 2 days ago

No magnetic confinement fusion reactor in existence has ever generated a positive output. The current record belongs to JET, with a Q factor of 0.67. This record was set in 1997.

The biggest reason we haven't had a record break for a long time is money. The most favourable reaction for fusion is generally a D-T (Deuterium-Tritium) reaction. However, Tritium is incredibly expensive. So, most reactors run the much cheaper D-D reaction, which generates lower output. This is okay because current research reactors are mostly doing research on specific components of an eventual commercial reactor, and are not aiming for highest possible power output.

The main purpose of WEST is to do research on diverter components for ITER. ITER itself is expected to reach Q ≥ 10, but won't have any energy harvesting components. The goal is to add that to its successor, DEMO.

Inertial confinement fusion (using lasers) has produced higher records, but they generally exclude the energy used to produce the laser from the calculation. NIF has generated 3.15MJ of fusion output by delivering 2.05MJ of energy to it with a laser, nominally a Q = 1.54. however, creating the laser that delivered the power took about 300MJ.

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