All three of the people pictured died shortly thereafter while trying to fire a longbow on the back of a horse with their feet.

Wasn’t the infection rate in the low double digits?

Like, it wasn’t even properly airborne. Monkeypox did better numbers.

Accurate depiction, given that the CEO is seconds away from lighting it all on fire

Well, it’s a cartoon about time travel

In space…? Because that requires moving one part while the others stationary….

Or moving one part opposite the direction of another, to create resistance.

Windmills have used sails as fins for long time lol, its nothing new, im trying to get you think critically here.

There’s plenty of conversation to be had about efficiency, heat venting, gross productivity. But “you can’t capture energy from another moving body” is something billards disproved several centuries ago.

I mean, that’s certainly some napkin math.

But $3-9B is pretty cheap by modern corporate standards. Does this mean OpenAI will have a working fusion engine some time in the next ten years?

Its versatility as a thermal source enables many industrial applications requiring temperatures difficult or impossible to achieve via electrification alone.

That’s fair. I guess if you really need a spicy blowtorch…

still down YTD

TSLA was at $297 this time last year and it’s trading at $403 today. I’ll spot you that it’s off the $485 peak. But it’s been on an absolute tear for the last six years.

And Trump/Hegseth keep giving them contracts because they’re idiots

Government contracts are the lifeblood of every big corporation. Half the reason why business execs at Fortune 100 firms are so slavishly loyal to whomever happens to be running the country at any given moment.

I don’t think Trump/Hegseth are morons for giving Musk access to the unlimited money pump, given how much of Musk’s money keeps overflowing into their own pockets. I think Biden and Obama were rubs for pumping up Silicon Valley stock over the last 18 years, fully ignoring how often they were getting in bed with outspoken fascists.

More broadly speaking, I think Hegseth has set the Pentagon up for failure over the next decade in the same way Rumsfeld did under Bush. But I also don’t consider that a bad thing, broadly speaking. Just a shame that we’re going to piss away trillions in blood, sweat, and tears at home so the US can finally get its nose busted properly in the Middle East.

The only thing more guaranteed than a Tech Sector crash is the multi-trillion dollar government bailout.

Might as well walk in the door with a $1.5T valuation, because that’s what the Feds are going to use to justify cutting you a check in another five years.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

That’s a lot of pedophiles…

Sails can power turbines.

React-ionaries.

Fusion isn’t as bad as fission or fossil fuel.

To date, terrestrial fusion has been a net-negative energy system. That’s strictly worse than fission or fossil.

Every energy source as its drawbacks. I.e. Solar panels and wind have the recycling of compound materials issue - it’s all glued together. And the environmental impact of source materials production, i.e. neodymium. Mining, refining,…

Do you think we’re getting terrestrial fusion without mining or materials compositing? What do you think fusion reactors and their attendant facilities are made out of?

We’re getting into reactionary FUD about wind turbines when we start waxing poetic about the environmental impact of big fan blades and dynamos (which are just as critical for coal and gas plants, btw). At some point, you’re still just converting mechanical energy to electrical energy, no matter what system you’re proposing. All of that will require industrial metals and conductors.

no wind in space

Um, akutly…

why is building a large, complex and hard to produce solar panel

Solar engines have historically been simple and easy to produce relative to coal and gas engines. We’ve had industrial solar heating technology since the 19th century, even. Sort of the joke of fossil fuel technology, in that it’s been a consequence of heavy R&D investment and industrial build out as much by choice as by any engineering advantage.

It’s improving the tech, which could eventually far and away outpaced every other energy producer.

It’s been a pop science empty promise for decades. We were talking about fusion technology in the 1960s like it was just around the corner. Yes, there’s an enormous amount of output in fusion technology. But it requires even more energy input. What’s more - as the article downplays but is forced to concede - it is highly unstable and difficult to sustain, even at a super-sized laboratory setting.

This is a far cry from fission which can be achieved practically by accident (see the Chicago Pile-1) and is comparatively straightforward to control via mechanical methods.

Even in the event you manage to produce something approaching stable fusion at the size-scale necessary for industrial deployment, there’s still no reason to believe the technology would be cheaper per watt than the indirect capture of an already running supermassive fusion system (ie, the Sun). In that case, it wouldn’t outpace every other energy producer for the same reason conventional nuclear power hasn’t.

12-year-old is being generous.

You forgot to add the part where you kissed your boss on the mouth to get a raise.