Oh shit somebody who can accurately be called a doomer. This feels like the time I ran into an actual naz-bol in the wild. I thought they were more of a rhetorical device than actually real.
‘it hasn’t happened yet so it must be impossible’ L take.
The graph is showing DOE experts in the 70s’ best guess at when we could have had a successful reactor project with various levels of funding. You’ll notice the line for ‘actual funding’ is roughly half of the estimate for ‘functionally never’ levels of funding.
The ‘fusion is always 30 years away’ stupidity ignores the fact that fusion is only 30 years away, if you actually spend the damn money to invest in it which we largely haven’t.
Oh shit somebody who can accurately be called a doomer. This feels like the time I ran into an actual naz-bol in the wild. I thought they were more of a rhetorical device than actually real.
‘it hasn’t happened yet so it must be impossible’ L take.
The graph is showing DOE experts in the 70s’ best guess at when we could have had a successful reactor project with various levels of funding. You’ll notice the line for ‘actual funding’ is roughly half of the estimate for ‘functionally never’ levels of funding.
The ‘fusion is always 30 years away’ stupidity ignores the fact that fusion is only 30 years away, if you actually spend the damn money to invest in it which we largely haven’t.