I agree, I think we are witnessing the global influence leader transition from the US to China. All they had to do was provide investments in lower income countries and stability at the national leadership level. The US did the rest by exploiting those same lower income countries for centuries and not providing a stable foreign policy.

It surprises me that bringing the server in house especially for emergency services isn’t a priority.

If their claims are true, yeah. That’s how I read the implications.

I’ve never understood this. It’s pretty easy to make some decent bread just by feel. I never measure, all you need is the right moisture to flour content.

But now after writing this maybe I just don’t have fear…

Thank you for this researched, thought out answer. I really appreciate the time you put into it. Super interesting topic and I’m glad to learn more!

They can’t control which particles fuse though. The Helion energy reactor still has the particles for deuterium to deuterium fusion. 50% of the time that gives your tritium+p and 50% is He3+n. I don’t know the preference of each fusion event in their reactor, but not all events will produce charged particles.

The way I understood it, the system used electromagnets to create a magnetic containment field to drive the fuel together to create the fusion event. That same magnetic containment field would experience a force from the produced charged particles. That force would produce a current in the electromagnets. That current would be stored in capacitors as a voltage which would be used as the energy source for the next magnetic compression cycle. The excess energy stored in the capacitor after the compression would be ‘generated’ energy.

Yes! That is super cool tech. If I remember correctly, only about half of the fusion reaction energy was produced as charged particles though. The other half was free neutrons which are notorious for not interacting with the EM field.

I love the idea, it is such a cool direct energy capture method, but it is inherently inefficient.

I’d love to be proved wrong. I did a quick search and couldn’t find the company I’m thinking of, so I’m going off memory.

That they are, but they’re still spinning magnets like our honorable ancestors did.

It’s why photovoltaics are so cool. Direct electricity generation without having to spin magnets in circles like neanderthals.

I agree with you, that would be a much more effective use of resources. It’s a fantasy though, and it’s way more fun for me to daydream about design than manipulating public policy.

All that said it’s not a fruitless endeavor to think about how you would build something from scratch even if you can’t. It is a good way to hash out ideas without getting bogged down by the resistance to change.

Just realized why tossing dice is called throwing bones.

I was thinking about this the other day. If I had half a trillion dollars (like the guy who just bought the presidency) I would spend it building a city from scratch. A walkable/bikeable city with free public transportation. I don’t have enough expertise to speak about affordable housing ideas, but with that amount of money I can pay someone to come up with some good regulations. Don’t know why but that’d be my passion project.

He just needs to make it an employee owned company. I believe it would make it a stable institution.

This writeup is such an interesting perspective of social media.

It’s the medium for the human hive mind. It’s civilization’s consciousness. It’s beyond any individual’s control or comprehension, and it exists for advertising…

I’ve had good project managers that really do make things run smoothly and take a ton of stress of the team. More often I’ve had the worse than useless ones that add workload rather than alleviate it.

I mean, even with a union, if a company crumbles the laborers are out of a job.

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I do not. This was the interviewer’s experience through conversations, not a rigorous scientific study I think.

I listened to an interview with a woman who researched aging and spent time interviewing lots of elderly people. The majority of those interviewed called their 60s the best decade of their life. I also dislike the myth that your youth was your peak and it’s all downhill from there. There’s good in all times of your life, lean into the experiences that are available at the time and don’t worry about how good the past was or how the future might be worse.