andrew-holland1.bsky.social
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Should have been Connor Lamb.
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Being a Senator is objectively the best job in politics. Maybe the country. You’re effectively a proconsul when you travel abroad, a king in your state, and you don’t have to run for office for 6 years. All they ask of you is to work 3.5 days a week in Washington. And this guy doesn’t want to do it.
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If it went back to 1880, I’m sure full “steam” would take the lead! Ha!
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“Worth the fighting for”
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Golf clubs don’t cost $5.5 billion to build… even in the desert.
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Read more about this here: www.fusionindustryassociation.org/fia-sends-le... and here: www.fusionindustryassociation.org/fia-sends-le...
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Always exceptions to the rule. But as a Wake Forest grad I’m confident it the Duke-ness that did it.
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Went to Duke?
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Except the intro line!
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They did one on FIA too!
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Yes, but not the same as this facility they’re building. NIF always had a duel mission- go back and look at the debates about building it, and everyone knew it was for energy too.
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The FIA works hard to ensure that fusion will not impact global nuclear proliferation. It seems that the Chinese have no such ethical separation.
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Well, now they actually got the money to build- which they didn’t in ‘14. So the pressure is on to deliver, and they have signed contracts for ‘28.
Fusion is hard. Doesn’t mean it won’t be worth it when we get there.
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It did not fail. It just did not take into account a key part: costs. Fusion was getting better, but costs were increasing at the same speed as performance.
Now with private sector investment, we’re driving down costs and the next generation of machines will continue progress to breakeven and more
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It’s not his job to know the specifics, but the fusion companies say less than a decade to power on the grid.
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So, if we were to take the GREENLAND stuff seriously, then the second question has to be: “sir, why are the sea lanes now so open, allowing Chinese shipping? And why is there less ice cover over the proposed mines?”
Reality can get in the way.
Or, maybe we just shouldn’t take it seriously.
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Moral of the story: you can’t argue for new foreign policy actions in the Arctic (like GREENLAND) without acknowledging that climate change is real, and is happening now.
The Chinese and Russians don’t have a problem acknowledging reality: they simply are taking action to their benefit.
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The Committee was chaired by then Congressman Dana Rohrbacher, who had long denied that climate change was happening or caused by man.
By the end of the hearing, he said: “we don’t know why the climate in the Arctic is changing, but it’s clear we need to prepare for it.”
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They have not seriously engaged with the private sector fusion companies who are working on a much faster timeline. They didn’t talk to Marvel, Proxima, Gauss, or Focused, each of which is moving much faster than the 25 year cited in there.
Breakthroughs don’t happen from incumbents
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A DD fusion reaction produces He3 and H3, both of which are much more valuable and rare than the He4 that goes into balloons. This is an important commodity that could be worth producing with fusion even without breakeven fusion.
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I’ve bet my career. Is that enough? What’s your bet?
Here’s the schedule: judge me by that - www.fusionindustryassociation.org/news/from-th...
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In 1903, the New York Times said it would be 1000 years before powered flight could work.