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  • #16
    "Very soon now, every German will instictively know the difference between bad predictions and poor ones."

    -Me

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Oncle Boris
      It is only when you all have betrayed me that I will come back. - Friedrich Nietzsche.

      Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
      The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
      The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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      • #18
        They actually could have a nuclear powered vacuum cleaner, it just isn't a good idea.

        JM
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        • #19
          Back in the 1960s they used to predict that we'd have working commercial fusion power plants by 1980.
          "I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!

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          • #20
            Well the US is taking the wrong approach. I mean tiny pellets compressed by lasers. Please.
            Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
            The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
            The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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            • #21
              It sure beats Slovenia's method which involves throwing gypsies mixed with coal into furnaces.

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              • #22
                You are just jealous of our superior Dregin inspired technology.
                Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
                  It sure beats Slovenia's method which involves throwing gypsies mixed with coal into furnaces.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
                    It sure beats Slovenia's method which involves throwing gypsies mixed with coal into furnaces.
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                    • #25
                      "There will not be war, Hitler is a man of peace" - Some astrologer before WW2.
                      Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing

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                      • #26
                        It doesn’t beat the direction in which most European research is going though.

                        Since this performance was far superior to any obtained in their existing devices, most fusion research programs quickly switched to using tokamaks. The tokamak continues to be the most promising device for generating net power from nuclear fusion, reflected in the design of the next generation ITER device.
                        tokamak

                        PS Even Slovenian death furnaces are very efficient.
                        Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                        The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                        The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                        • #27
                          It sure beats Slovenia's method which involves throwing gypsies mixed with coal into furnaces.


                          I knew I liked you for a reason.
                          "The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
                            Back in the 1960s they used to predict that we'd have working commercial fusion power plants by 1980.
                            After that, commercial fusion power has always been "just 20 years away", whenever fusion power gains interest it's predicted to be in use by n+20, where n is the year of prediction. In 1970s, it would've been in use by 1990s; in 80s by 2000s; in 90s by 2010s. There's never any need to be worried about nuclear power because it's always to be replaced by fusion in 20 years' time!

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
                              Ford actually had a nuclear powered car in the works back in the 50s called the Fored Nucleon.

                              Imagine bin Laden & co armed with that car.
                              Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
                              I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139.14a
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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by VJ

                                After that, commercial fusion power has always been "just 20 years away", whenever fusion power gains interest it's predicted to be in use by n+20, where n is the year of prediction. In 1970s, it would've been in use by 1990s; in 80s by 2000s; in 90s by 2010s. There's never any need to be worried about nuclear power because it's always to be replaced by fusion in 20 years' time!
                                which makes me think practical fusion is impossible. I just can't see how they can make is self sustainable and controllable at the same time.

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