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Comment Re:Stop now [and just give up] (Score 1) 114

Investor momentum is shifting, and smart money is chasing startups like Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Helion (among others; however, they seem to be the front runners).

Renewables are and continue to be one of the most expensive power generation options on the market (I keep looking for signs that that has changed, and I see nothing on the market today that tells me otherwise). Even novel fission technologies such as SMRs MSRs threaten it from a cost angle (ignoring regulatory costs, which is why MSRs in particular seem to thrive in environments where regulations are non-existant or are "flexible"). Working fusion reactors would beat everything else on the market on a cost basis and could plug right into the grid, no problem. Fabricating the reactors may be expensive initially until economy of scale kicks in for individual parts, though honestly if you think companies for CFS and Helion haven't already addressed that in some fashion, I'd say you're nuts.

Comment Re: was that w,ritten by AI, or is it human gibber (Score 1) 92

Most jobs in a bureaucracy are useless and not productive. In ye olden deyz there were huge offices filled with pretty girls whose sole job was to make correspondence look pretty. An engineer would write a letter by hand in his chicken scratch, send it to the typing pool and after a week, they would return a draft done by a youngster with a typo in each paragraph. You would then mark it up and it would then go to a more senior and possibly less pretty lady to retype and you would get it back with maybe one typo per page. At that point it was already three weeks later and you then had to decide whether to return it again or mail it to the client. All those thousands upon thousands of jobs disappeared forty years ago when engineers started to type their own letters on an Apple IIe. There are however still vast numbers of people employed as data analysts and quants to name a couple, which are now in danger of death by AI.

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