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drewvolpe commented on Wendelstein 7-X sets new fusion record   heise.de/en/news/Wendelst... · Posted by u/doener
jablongo · 7 months ago
It seems like the ranking of likely success in the next 10 years is

1. Commonwealth (tokamak w/ high temp superconducting magnets)

2. Helion (field reversed configuration, magnetic-inertial, pulsed) ....

?. Wendelstein (stellarator)

Maybe stellarators will be the common design in 2060 once fabrication tech has improved, but for the near future I think its going to be one of the first two.

drewvolpe · 7 months ago
4. Acceleron (muon catalyzed)

There's huge advantages to muon catalyzed if they can get it to work. Plants would be orders of magnitude smaller and cheaper to build.

[0] https://www.acceleron.energy/

drewvolpe commented on The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state   nber.org/papers/w33697... · Posted by u/imakwana
Kozmik1 · 8 months ago
Weird. There is little that depresses me more than watching my wife sit at the table for hours a day slowly scrolling Facebook while ignoring me and the kids. We have talked about it and she's tried to reduce it to no avail.
drewvolpe · 8 months ago
It's an addiction and really hard to stop. Facebook spends billions designing it to be as addictive as possible.

In this study, they paid people $25 to not use it for a week. I wonder if your wife would agree to that. It seems like for most people who are addicted, you need to go "sober" and not use it all.

drewvolpe commented on My Other Database Is a Compiler   blog.chiselstrike.com/my-... · Posted by u/polyrand
drewvolpe · 4 years ago
When I was learning to code, programmers had to know about a lot of low level details like memory management, disk I/O, process scheduling, etc. Today, the average JavaScript programmer never thinks about these things.

I could imagine a world in the near future where most programmers don't think about databases.

drewvolpe commented on Nuclear is back on the table for a green future   nytimes.com/2022/06/15/bu... · Posted by u/gumby
Simplicitas · 4 years ago
Stunning how many well-informed people here are still so distrustful of nuclear energy despite all the advancements.
drewvolpe · 4 years ago
People are irrationally concerned about low-probability but high severity risks, which is what nuclear is.

The chance of someone in the US dying from a terrorist attack is about 1 out of 3 million. It's a rounding error compared with heart disease (1:6), suicide (1:93), storms (1:35k) or even sunstroke (1:6k). Yet, the US spends $52B / year on the department of homeland security.

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