Dude drinks too much on a cruise, has no recollection of going overboard and comes to in the ocean with no lights in sight. It’s like a fraternity Jason Bourne and my nightmare. Dude is SOooooooo lucky.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/c...iew/index.html
And he says he wasn't drunk. Hmmm... a curious story, to say the least.
Could have sworn I heard a reporter ask him if he was drunk and then heard him deny it, although it was on one of those godawful evening tv shows that I was trying very hard not to watch, and furiously messing with the clicker to get to a different channel. So I could be mistaken.
Today at 10am, a self sustained Fusion Reaction at Lawrence Livermore Labs (LLL) in California will be announced.
https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...es-2022-12-12/
The potential impacts of this are staggering for the world's energy supply and infrastructure.
Imagine all of the world's existing Nuclear (Fission) Power Plants becoming obsolete. No more storing of nuclear waste. Abundant clean/green energy available for lower cost. Very timely when you're talking about the increase in EV production/usage and need for significantly more electricity to power them. Apparently, the day will come when coal plants that produce electricity will definitely disappear.
The actual building of a plant will take 1-2 decades, and surely there are some problems to solve here, but nothing insurmountable.
Background: Nuclear reactions are different in process and product; note the difference between an atomic bomb (fission) and a hydrogen bomb (fusion). Edward Teller, perhaps the greatest modern physicist not to win a Nobel Prize because of political issues, was the original proponent of fusion reactions back in the 1940s. At the time, it was his view that to get a fusion reaction going you needed a fission reaction to ignite it (at the heart of a hydrogen bomb is an atomic bomb); in other words HUGE ENERGY is needed to start it. Since the 1940s, physicists have been trying to create a fusion reaction that is self sustaining because of the obvious benefits. The fuel is not Uranium (radioactive and rare to amass in bulk), but Hydrogen (the most plentiful element in the galaxy, and otherwise benign). The biproduct of hydrogen fusion is Helium (not quite as plentiful, but an inert Nobel Gas).
There are a number of other Fusion Reaction experiments (i.e., Tokomak reactors) that have been going on around the country/world for years. Whether this discovery will enhance the progress using those methods or not I can't say.
Remember Cold Fusion (the hoax)? Huge hubbub at the time around that because the implications were staggering.
Larry
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