I must be sleeping.
First was this:
But not so fast -- here is yet another one, from the IEEE Spectrum magazine that was in my mailbox today:
It is NOT about some scientific research or Nobel Prize breakthrough.
No, those are STARTUPS that promise to put Nuclear fusion reactors on the grid by 2030. COMMERCIAL REACTORS. On the grid. Those are STARTUPS, taking billions of financing for that. Commercial reactors by 2030. Putting gigawatts into the grid. The first article even told about one of them having a contract with Microsoft to sell electricity to them if my dementia serves me right.
I can't believe it is for real and in an IEEE magazine. I must be sleeping, please wake me up...
There is still not a single tokamak or whatever that has produced even as much energy as it draws from the grid. Not even starting on net positive. But it doesn't stop STARTUPS -- they are supposedbly building COMMERCIAL POWER PLANTS that will be putting gigawatts into the grid. Free power for everyone, no more awkward clunky solar panels, Solynras (remember that?), ugly wind turbines, those molten salt abominations with fields of mirrors in Nevada desert, no CO2 emission from natural gas turbines, just pure clean energy...
Are all those guys who finance those theranoses and likes morons with more billions of dollars than brain cells? I don't think so -- they DID get those billions from somewhere... There must be something I'm missing behind all that...
I'm definitely sleeping, please wake me up... At least I will be able to cancel my membership -- I don't know why I'm still a member...
An old Russian anekdot:
- Cadets, here is our newest top secret ballistic missile that flies at 10x the speed of light. - Comrade sergeant, but scientists claim that nothing can move faster than light! - Scientists don't know, the missile is TOP SECRET!