Never forget the future that was taken from us.
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Of course, mother!
Thank you Junior. Don't forget to wear you shoes when you go play in the asbestos pit at school. I put two cigarettes in your lunchbox you can have one at lunch if your teacher says its okay and one on the way to home after your shift at the radium watch painting factory.
It’ll come back eventually unless fusion takes over. The power density promises are simply too attractive.
Never mind that pesky burning taste, imagine the power savings!
It always smells like bloody sinus in our house after changing the wafer.
That means it's working!
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Feeling snackish for an
A T O M I C
W A F E R !
All wafers, cookies, chips, biscuits, crispbread and hardtack I've ever seen have been atomic.
I struggle to imagine one that wouldn't be.
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“Mother, why do all my teeth feel itchy?”
"It's because you haven't been smoking enough. Here, smoke these two before dinner."
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She's right there. This is literally a power play to force her kid to do a pointless task.
"pick up that can"
Of course, mother!
Look at his face, he's 100% gonna eat that.
There's a timeliness where tiktok kids are eating atomic wafers as a challenge.
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"Timmy you left the aluminum foil on the atomic wafer!!"
"By golly Tim you shattered space time and opened a black hole!"
"My apologies mother and father, I have been absent of clear cognition."
Wait a sec, I was told American's don't use the metric system...
The imperial system doesn't have any electromagnetism units that I'm aware of, so they borrow from SI.
We can use horsepower hours if you’d like. Or BTU
I'm all for paying my electric bill in horsepower/hours. That feels very American. How many V8s is my house?
I'd be horsepower * hour, since horsepower is a unit, of, well, power, and [Energy] = [Power]*[Time]
But might as well go for an obscure time unit as well at that point. Horsepower Sennights, baby
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The Watt predates the SI itself. SI borrows the Watt much as it dues with other units.
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Too 👏 cheap 👏 to 👏 meter
Given the up-front cost of any kind of reactor, I don’t think the concept of a usage-based electric bill goes away as long as it’s corporations competing for customers. Maybe eventually it would be like ISPs where it’s a flat fee depending on the size of your connection. I guess it could be totally unmetered then.
Like so many things, it gets a lot simpler if it’s the government supplying the service.
It's not too cheap to meter even when provided as a public service. Nuclear is more expensive than battery + solar, more expensive than wind, more expensive than coal
"Too cheap to meter" was a lie that ignored costs of safety and decommissioning.
Yeah I agree, and you still hear that BS about fusion power, that it will be an unlimited source of cheap/free clean energy.
I guess I could imagine scenarios where power is not metered and is supported via taxes, maybe in a scenario where citizens have a right to energy just like a right to healthcare. It’s not free by any means, but the people who make the most money and thus benefit the most from the infrastructure end up paying into it the most. And the truly poor would get free (to them) electricity.
I really wonder about fusion. Most of the news of energy production higher than energy input is about non-electricity fusion - the big tokamak fusion systems are not yet producing more power than they take to run, but scientists working on them are expecting good results soon
Like when I was a kid fusion was 20 years away and would always be 20 years away. Now it looks like it'll be 5 years away for a while
I like to follow fusion news whenever I see it, and I think the situation might be even worse than you’re describing, lol.
The news about ignition and/or more energy out than in, that refers to the energy actually delivered to the sample versus the full energy released from the sample. So it doesn’t include all the energy needed to charge and fire the lasers that was lost along the way. And like you said, it’s the thermal power they’re measuring, and you lose a huge amount of that power when converting to electricity.
I think we’re still firmly in the “fusion is 20/30 years away” cycle.
I'm hanging out for when ITER is operational. There's every chance it runs at or just over 1:1
Oh yeah, I think ITER is supposed to have a Q of like 10, so maybe they can produce a net gain system-wide.
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Putting it in my underwear later...
I passed out from the flood of Fallout references that just rushed into my brain.
Clean! Safe!! Too cheap to meter!!!
/pffft
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