https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63950962 Nuclear fusion as an energy source takes an important step closer to reality. Somewhat worried about helium as a waste product though. We don't all want to end up sounding like Joe Pasquale.
https://time.com/6240538/mrna-cancer-vaccine-moderna/ Early trials by Moderna have shown a 44% reduction in skin cancer reoccurrence or death following a tailored MRNA vaccine. As depressing as the world seems, we're getting that much closer to unlimited cheap energy and cancer vaccines.
This is very exciting and a genuine breakthrough. I also thought it was time for a nuclear fusion story as we haven’t had one for a while.
Nuclear fusion , continued improvements in battery tech and lab grown meat will go a long way to keeping the world as an inhabitable place for future generations.
It's a shame that the full documentary appears to be taken down but The Nuclear Boy Scout (2003) shown on C4 in 2004 is an excellent documentary about how a teenage boy in the US built a working nuclear reactor in his mother's potting shed.
From how understand it they put one of something in and got one and a half out meaning free energy is here and just needs to be tweaked, is this correct?
Just need to rid the world of corporations with their hands all over governments next then we can move forward properly.
That's my understanding too. Although the whole thing happened on a microscopic scale for a tiny amount of time. Scaling it up is the next big challenge.
I was listening to an audiobook recently when running which described how this happens. Essentially they are trying to replicate how the sun works on Earth. There is a huge amount of energy held in nuclei of atoms, but hydrogen atoms for example are generally very stable (or we/ the world around us wouldn't exist). You need a huge amount of energy to fuse hydrogen (and other) atoms together as they're both positively charged, so repel each other, like when you push the same poles of a magnet together. If the conditions of gravity and energy input are just right, you can sustain the fusion of the hydrogen, which pushes out as energy from the nucleus is released, and stop it from expanding and swallowing us all up through equal gravitational forces pushing inwards. Then, until all of the atomic fuel has been used up, you get a stable output of energy which is greater than the energy you put in (currently around 1.5x more but can be way, way more), and helium as a byproduct which has no negative consequence on our planet. But as UEA says, this is done on a microscopic level, and we're still likely decades away from scaling this up (although not the 40-60 years we may have been if this breakthrough hadn't have been made). It's probably one for the energy transition after this energy transition.
Brief article here that’s vaguely interesting: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/physicists-discuss-bay-area-fusion-breakthrough-17657480.php
Polite delivery robot thanks couple who free it from icy street https://uk.yahoo.com/news/polite-de...le-who-free-it-from-icy-street-193832513.html They're taking over I tell you, unless it's a bit icy.
