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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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i decided not to get excited until replicated experiments by third parties were done, it was too good to be true
I know better and still got excited.
I know we need to fix our problems as a society, but damn that technology hopium really gets me going.
In unrelated news, did you see the fusion news! We did it! Net positive energy! Fusion will be in our toasters in a few short years!
i hate to break it to you, but net positive isn't exact here. the "energy in" used to calculate it is the energy of the actual photons, but to actually fire those lasers, you need 100 times the energy, so it's a net 1%
The fusion definition of "net positive" has always been heavily inflated so that investors and governments will actually put money into these dreams