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1. hankg (hankg@friendica.myportal.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 08:04:53 CET hankg
   The amount of progress we've been making on fusion power in the last year has been astounding. #science #physics #fusion
   France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes
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   • me·ta·phil, der (metaphil@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 07:20:38 CET me·ta·phil, der

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     @hankg can i interest you in … umm … *remote fusion reactors*? with it, you can
     *earn* billions, not burn* billions! not „in 20 years™”, but already today!
     just let the sun do the heavy lifting with the fusion and the physics and those pesky atoms, lean back and enjoy the harvest 8 minutes later here on planet earth …

     #fernfusion

   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 07:20:38 CET Michael Vogel

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     • me·ta·phil, der
     @metaphil @hankg Of course solar and wind can replace a lot of other power plants. Also they can be used to decentralize the power grid. But I think that it's important to continue research for fusion, since this could be helpful under certain conditions - for example for spacecrafts or on other planets.
   • me·ta·phil, der (metaphil@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 09:00:24 CET me·ta·phil, der

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     • Michael Vogel

     @heluecht Space is for billionaires, imperialist war mongerers and extractivist resource exploitation. When we're done saving pur own planet (let alone surviving as a species) and completely bored we can take up the Star Trek sci-fi reenactment space stuff again.

   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 09:00:24 CET Michael Vogel

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     • Michael Vogel
     • me·ta·phil, der
     @metaphil I see that different. I think that space is for science and research. And research can benefit from better engines a lot, especially for expeditions to the outer planets and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.