We don't even know how much waste, especially radioactive waste, it will produce until we build some useful prototypes.
I have no issues with fission technology, but we do know, even now, that fusion would only produce relatively small, calculable quantities of low-grade, fast decaying material and would be inherently safe from any runaway effects. Fuel would be nearly unlimited and universally available.
Money is being splurged, in comparatively obscene quantities, on much less promising things.
"TrapC, a fork of the C language,"
There's a lot more to a C(++) compiler and its surrounding ecosystem than just the paradigm of "memory safety".
Resources would be better allocated to scaling up things that work now and at known and reasonable cost:
There is absolutely no reason both things can't be done at the same time. The money spent on fusion research is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. The ultimate vision should be energy that is available in abundance and almost too cheap to meter, rather than just "reasonable".
"Think of it, magnets," Trump said. "Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that's the end of the magnets. Why didn't they use John Deere? Why didn't they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere."
This has got to be code of some kind. Something like the lingo in Oceans 11, only less refined.
We won't have proven energy gain from magnetic confinement fusion until ITER is built, but Trump will likely cancel it since Musk hates it.
Trump can wreak a lot of havoc, to be sure, but luckily ITER may not be important enough for him to bully others into exiting as well, even if he cuts funding to the US share.
to boil water, without, well, melting it
And you got that wrong, too.
and, like all engineering, is hard to do well.
Imho, software engineering still eludes all management, planning and steering techniques more by an order of magnitude than other kinds of engineering.
It's the closest anywhere in the world to a practical fusion reactor.
I'd say: closest in the sense (being a bit over the top and flowery here) that the tallest person on earth is closest to being able to touch the sun.
That said: any real advance in fusion is fantastic news. Hats off to EAST.
I wonder why that kind of approach isn't more popular if porch theft is such a huge problem. Too expensive? Too much hassle?
The locked safe space would just have to provide a smallish increase in security over none at all, assuming the majority of porch theft is casual and opportunist.
Aging Isn't Linear, Researchers Discover
Few things are this simple, why would aging be.
"The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do." -- Gregory Bateson
