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Who here has filled out the survey?
my scientific-minded self is seriously questioning how you can build an apparatus that contains superheated plasma hotter than the sun on meager allowance in your garage.
-But!
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@FlyingDutchmann this right after my buddy sends me a link to the “African child genius at Oxford”. To be fair the little African kid has autism so it might be true to some extent.
okay so his is just a really small particle accelerator
pretty chad nonetheless
Hey y’all just finished the survey *dab*
@TIDE stellarator>>
hmmm idk on that
how many tokomaks are even being experimented on??
not many, friend! There are what? half a dozen stellarators?
and then a couple other private designs
We'll see what ITER says about that @NateDahl76
Fusion is easily produced on industrial scale. But it takes more power to sustain it than it produces. Lightning for example creates hotter than sun temps.
Net positive sustained fusion is the holy grail
Shit, can someone repost the survey? I can't find it
<#358430171583217664> @Chaos Dionysia
Why doesn't africa have the ability to create fusion? Probably economic factors.
It’s because of colonialism
Wakanda tech makes fusion look like steam power. Get woke. <:galaxybrain:366743669484683264>
All the big brains left on their pyramids.
i didn't even know the wendelstein was running
@Matthias thank you
You bet
great talk
@Perihelion - CA the "holy grail" descriptor makes it seem out of touch and impossible, when in reality that point isn't so far
Well people have been saying that for 50 years now
Well, we've been making ridiculous strides in the last decade. So that's a dumb point
Grail quest is ok by me
it's not like it's mathematically impossible or anything, it's just yet to be scaled and optimized for self-sustenance
Warp drives are mathematically possible
hence why bigger and better ones are breaking records all the time now
Im sure well get there at some point
okay I'm talking in a realm of physical things we're doing and you're just trying to discredit me on theoretical warp drives, k
not that I wouldn't love an alcubierre 😢
Engineering and economic factors are hard to overcome. So far theyve been prohibative. Bigger and more expensive isnt necesarrily progress in this regard