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Meanwhile in American science news

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Highest amount of bullshit I’ve ever read, American scientists can be such jokes sometimes.

It all went downhill when we started accepting “celebrity scientists”

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I achieved a discharge this morning to zero fan-fare

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Looking at the stark difference between contemporary Chinese and American science, it’s basically insane to think America not even that long ago was the scientific center of the world.

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Yes but it should be renamed BMIT.

The Bitch Made Institute of Technology

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headlines that could be very different with a single letter change

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American science just can’t compare

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cummercial

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I was thinking “artificial son”

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By 2027 the goal is Q>10

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I’d imagine, but I found this interesting:

Currently the maximum Q value achieved by humans is 1.53.

Had no idea someone had managed to get more energy out of a fusion device than they put in. Must have been unable to sustain it for any significant length of time, but still seems important.

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Also this is just plasma gain, not whole system gain. To have a commercially viable reactor your probably need Q total > 10 at least. No system build so far even has a Q total of 1

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It was the NIF two years ago but it’s also not going to be generating power ever, it was just a demonstration/proof of concept.

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The Q=1.53 was done at the National Ignition Facility using inertial confinement fusion, which is significant for plasma research (and probably bombs), but can’t be used to generate power.

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It was big news I want to say about a year ago when a team first published that they had done it

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