Built, physically operational reactors that operate as close to Q=1 as they can, with all the diagnostics included.

The diagnostics are very important, as plasma instabilities have been, and continue to be, the critical issue preventing anything useful coming out of our decades of fusion reactor design. All these companies are sharing data on overcoming plasma instability issues, with multiple geometries aimed at evaluating how plasma responds to different inputs in different environments. We’re all trying to understand how to control and compress something far too hot to physically touch.

@[email protected] scaling fusion isn’t a trivial problem, and saying it like it is indicates a lack of background knowledge. This isn’t a competition between companies (no matter what our CEOs suggest), as we in industry quietly all agree that any of us that cracks this unchains humanity from the solar system. Because government funding has unfortunately sucked so much ass, we’re sort of using private money to get the basic research done. We’d be so much farther ahead otherwise.

Good points and questions. First wall interaction is going to be an interesting problem for this team to work around.

No??

I’ve supported engineering at several privately funded nuclear fusion companies, though all of them, this Chinese company included, are building a product out of public school research.

Off the top of my head there’s:

• CFS
• TAE technologies
• Thea
• Zap Energy

And several more…

I saw the same when I lived in OC. It’s pretty lively up here in Seattle too.

No. As an engineer, I can and will vouch for building a larger, stronger chain of regret against greed, lest this type of shit happen again years down the line.

The more people scarred by touching and feeling the results of their own greed and hubris, the longer it’ll be before we see such disregard for human life in an engineering firm.

The trick is how many more of us there are. The aristocracy seemed pretty complacent and untouchable, until one day when that changed.

Not saying it’s gotta get to that point, but making people see the direct consequences of their greed would be so good for us all.

Bullshit, these fucks led to hundreds of terrified deaths in pursuit of profit alone.

Accountants, engineers, manages, round em up and make them look through the wallets and personal possessions of the people who perished.

Nothing but time. So long as their testing is rigorous, they will catch up to Boeing… But will they be rigorous? History has repeatedly suggested, no.

But we in the west shouldn’t count on that continually being the case.

I was a long-time Xubuntu fan, tried Ubuntu directly from canonical for my new laptop.

It’s been a bit rocky, all things considered. I think I’m trying something else next time, maybe mint or whatever. Maybe Xubuntu, but only if this snap shit has been cut out.

😂

Not if you do it simultaneously… cost is higher than just rail, but rains wouldn’t have range limits at all, and would weigh less, meaning less energy used to accelerate (and better emergency brake response).

I’m very pro EV, but even more a fan of distributed power systems that aren’t chemical based.

Cooling is very important for LEDs. I’ve seen some cheaper brands skimp on the cooling methods, presumably because it means the product costs less to make, and may force a repeat sale later.

Originally mechanical, moved over to high speed power by volunteering and taking on projects that needed more EE stuff vs ME.

I work in research and development, in terms of stress and fulfillment, jobs are invariably a mix of the two. You’ll need to build a portfolio of interesting personal projects which are useful, the ability to be creative and flexible… You know, stuff that helps you stand out, comparatively.

Do your time, just get your foot in the door. But do something more advanced with that time than you’re asked to, if you intend to demand more pay from other companies. And don’t plan on sticking around for more than 3 years, you only get real pay bumps by moving around, so it seems.

I make energy (a word describing the measure of the invisible magic which makes sea waves happen, the sensation of warmth of the sun on your skin, and the effort you put into lifting heavy rocks) move around really, really, really fast, and lots and lots of it too.

Controlling this ‘energy’ is a difficult task because if you give it even a little chance, ‘energy’ will escape in the easiest, most useless way possible. Half my job is planning how to prevent energy from escaping without doing something useful first.

Well… At least all the ones related to platform IO and other embedded development. Can’t say every extension, since I’ve not tried them all.

Represent! (It’s vscode with all telemetry and crap removed, all your vscode extensions still work fine)

✅ dunzo

No this shit is fucked

Hear hear. That’s how the tools I write work as well.

Yeah it loaded after searching the ASIN hahaha