What "clean energy"? The fusion reaction releases the vast majority of its energy in the form of 14 MeV neutrons, which irradiate the "first wall" of the containment structure (usually made of steel) and turns it into radioactive waste. It must be replaced on a regular basis. Things the fusion fad proponents (always 30 years away) won't tell the public...because it is a "detail." This has only been known for half a century.
Oh, the money has been spent on the legitimate stuff. It's just that it is a waste of time and money. Virtue signalling and a way to bribe the science community. Or, a demonstration of how scientific mystification can impress the scientifically illiterate. "I can't understand it...so it must be profound, and therefore important."
Hmm, don't robots spring from the "science community"? Are you on the receiving end of some of those "legitimate" bribes?
You're right about the signalling though. It's "virtually" all signaling. Weird how robots always wanna use the British accents and spelling. Sorta pretentious dontcha think?
Anyhoo, signal received. 14 MeV on the steel in 30 years. Gotcha. 😉
You don't know? Mostly, robots (autonomous systems) sprang from the defense industry (guided missiles). Then, automatic behavior became commercially exploitable, and you have vendors (e.g., Boston Dynamics) making big strides. The pure science folks like to dream about artificial intelligence, but some of their thinking is not first rate (I am in mind of Roger Penrose, who made an impossible conjecture as the basis of a thought experiment). I have always been in industry, working for honest wages, and sometimes saving the government some money.
I'm not aware that robots "always use the British accents and spelling." The robots that call me have very unpolished accents and seem to specialize in murmuring (but they are using human beings for their voicebox). It is an attempt to simulate an educated mind, when you really have a toaster made in Shropshire. Yes, pretentious.
It's been 30 years in future for the past 50 years, if that gives any hint. I stopped holding my breath when that was imparted to me 50 years ago, and I started understanding the basic problems. Sadly, all this focus on Fusion the Ideal Power Source has stood in the way of Fission the Real Power Source. There is so much uranium and thorium, we have millennia of power available to us, not counting the uranium dissolved in seawater. I would say it can buy us time to figure out something even better.
But don't beam the power for distribution. That is incredibly dangerous---or you need huge transmission systems to make them safe. Electricity is immeasurably safer and more compact.
What "clean energy"? The fusion reaction releases the vast majority of its energy in the form of 14 MeV neutrons, which irradiate the "first wall" of the containment structure (usually made of steel) and turns it into radioactive waste. It must be replaced on a regular basis. Things the fusion fad proponents (always 30 years away) won't tell the public...because it is a "detail." This has only been known for half a century.
Looks like the drum of a giant washing machine. I think the only thing clean coming outta that is the laundered money.
Oh, the money has been spent on the legitimate stuff. It's just that it is a waste of time and money. Virtue signalling and a way to bribe the science community. Or, a demonstration of how scientific mystification can impress the scientifically illiterate. "I can't understand it...so it must be profound, and therefore important."
Hmm, don't robots spring from the "science community"? Are you on the receiving end of some of those "legitimate" bribes?
You're right about the signalling though. It's "virtually" all signaling. Weird how robots always wanna use the British accents and spelling. Sorta pretentious dontcha think?
Anyhoo, signal received. 14 MeV on the steel in 30 years. Gotcha. 😉
You don't know? Mostly, robots (autonomous systems) sprang from the defense industry (guided missiles). Then, automatic behavior became commercially exploitable, and you have vendors (e.g., Boston Dynamics) making big strides. The pure science folks like to dream about artificial intelligence, but some of their thinking is not first rate (I am in mind of Roger Penrose, who made an impossible conjecture as the basis of a thought experiment). I have always been in industry, working for honest wages, and sometimes saving the government some money.
I'm not aware that robots "always use the British accents and spelling." The robots that call me have very unpolished accents and seem to specialize in murmuring (but they are using human beings for their voicebox). It is an attempt to simulate an educated mind, when you really have a toaster made in Shropshire. Yes, pretentious.
It's been 30 years in future for the past 50 years, if that gives any hint. I stopped holding my breath when that was imparted to me 50 years ago, and I started understanding the basic problems. Sadly, all this focus on Fusion the Ideal Power Source has stood in the way of Fission the Real Power Source. There is so much uranium and thorium, we have millennia of power available to us, not counting the uranium dissolved in seawater. I would say it can buy us time to figure out something even better.
But don't beam the power for distribution. That is incredibly dangerous---or you need huge transmission systems to make them safe. Electricity is immeasurably safer and more compact.