Post by ellipses84 on Dec 14, 2022 12:32:27 GMT -5
This gives me hope in relation to climate change! The article doesn’t say this but the feds have promised $50 mil. to private companies that are developing this to partner with the Gov’t and Biden has a 10 year goal to make implement it as an energy source (which many say is optimistic).
13 year old Ruby thought she would be a nuclear engineer, and had dreams of discovering a feasible fusion reaction to produce power (which would also win the Nobel prize). Big dreams, Ruby. I’m no where even tangential to the field (thanks Mr. Neighbor, the actual nuclear engineer, for killing my dreams 😂).
Yay geek shit!!! I remember when I was like, 20 years old, having a deeply earnest conversation with an older hippy kinida guy who was very like, "we need to be ready to go back to the land because peak oil and reasons" (sorta one of those so far left he comes out right types...) where I was like, "I really just have faith that in my lifetime we're giong to see scientific advances we cannot imagine. Discoveries are moving SO FAST and I have no choice but to hope that we can save ourselves in time."
I've lost that hope over the years, but hey, maybe!!!!
10 years is incredibly optimistic, but that doesn't mean it isn't cool or will never happen! I always have mixed feelings about some of the defense work that goes on in laboratories around the nation but happy when we could get a broader use out of those investments.