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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a silly title.

The sun doesn't produce a lot of energy because it is hot. The sun produces energy because it is big. All functional experimental fusion reactors operate at much higher temperatures than the sun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Like 10x for takamak iirc

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its actually pretty "easy" to get hotter than the sun

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An electrical arc is as hot as the surface of the sun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even if you get as hot as the core, you're not doing the same amount of fission unless you have similar pressure at the same time, and no you don't. It's a bit complicated by the fact the sun is mostly protium, and has low volumetric energy output as a result, but that's the gist.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did it produce surplus energy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Shhh, we're talking about heat generation

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many billionaires can be put inside at the same time? Asking for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lets be real, gates is one of the few that did more good than harm.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pshh no way, my armchair ranting about society has done way more than the Gate’s foundation eradicating polio for the last 40 years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can understanding why he’s eradicating polio, too many horses get injured doing it. At least in water polio the horses suffer fewer leg injuries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And don't get us started on ricket! /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Raging hot take on Lemmy, but yeah, agreed. He was a bastard to get the money. All that money is going to, like, starving African kids, though. If I was him I'd do the same shit and sleep like a baby.

Meanwhile, Bezos builds dick rockets and nobody complains, because he keeps out of the headlines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bezos wants to play dragon

Gates is definitely a good human, but nobody is without flaws. Bezos however wants to be evil. And then there is Musk, thinking he does good but actually is a clown that only causes inconveniences for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's ~2000 confirmed billionares on Earth. Some do philanthropy, some do evil, but most just enjoy being comically rich, like Jeff.

Honestly that sounds about like what the people I know would do. This is because it's all random chance, and they are an average group of people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Id say its still import how they got so rich, oil people for example are definitely on the evil scale. And thats the more important part, when when you get rich by destroying the world and using literal slave labor you are definitely evil. And this type of billionaire is more common than the good people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, sure, not in the ~2000 are guys like Putin or the Saudi royals. We all know they have way more than just a billion, but we can't prove it. Then again, there's a lot of mean people who are still poor. I've met some.

The math is sound. I'm always linking that thing because more people need to know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“…$30,000 a gram in 2022, almost as precious as a diamond.” 🤨

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I though that was strange too. I'm sure you can get a gram of industrial diamond dust for much cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Article says Shell invested $160m in Zap in 2022.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The smart ones are investing in renewables.