Actually, there are a lot of experiments in non-inductive current generation in tokamaks which can allow it to run continuously (in principle). Current generation is done with a combination of phased microwave antennas, tilted neutral beams, and harnessing a phenomenon called bootstrap current.
(Background: the plasma current in tokamaks is normally generated by a transformer and is called inductive current. The induced current is proportional to the time derivative of the transformer voltage, so for a constant current, there's a limit on available transformer voltage so the current must stop at some point. These non-inductive current generation techniques get around that.)
You seem to not be aware that fusion research is an open and collaborative project between all nations. We share data, equipment, tokamak run-time, and scientists. Your partisan suspicion is understandable for someone not in the know, but it's totally wrong. The fusion scientific community is well aware of what is going on at EAST (and all other major collaborative facilities), when the machine turns on, when it turns off, when there is a leak, when a diagnostic malfunctions, and when things go well.
At DIII-D (USA), we have built a "remote control room" for EAST and KSTAR so that researchers in US can operate EAST on the third shift when our colleagues in China are sleeping. Control parameters will be transferred to Hefei over the internet and diagnostics will be fed back to the monitors in almost real time.
BTW, I am a fusion research scientist based in US, but I do do some work on EAST as well as other machines.
You claim to have done research but you haven't presented any, and then you call others lazy for not doing the research themselves. You might as well not have done the research then.
The problem is the practice of requiring admin privileges to install most software. Software should not require admin install unless they really need it. Common frameworks (which are a big user of DLLs) do exacerbate the problem since they often want to be installed in a root location so all the applications can share it.
A solution is to forbid third parties from bundling installers for common framework runtime binaries. If the framework is needed, then either install the binaries in the application directory or tell the user to go install it themself.
Who has time for that? Let's say it takes me a couple hours to sue a telemarketer. If it takes me about 5 seconds to pull out my phone, answer a call, listen, and hang up on a telemarketer, and they call maybe once a week, then it'll take over 20 years to equal the time it took to sue the telemarketer. Worse, yet, it's probably not the same telemarketer calling each time, so I'd have to sue each of them in turn.
You just have to figure it out yourself. You have years and years to do so. You have more opportunities to become an expert at being you than any doctor does.
The claim was probably something like it takes less resources to produce one calorie of pork than it takes to produce a calorie of lettuce. I wouldn't be very surprised if that's true. Nobody eats lettuce for the calories. Lettuce is practically water. Now do a comparison for grains or potatoes vs meat.
Unfortunately, we have people who are against all sorts of regulation, so it can't be fixed. Perhaps fishers will have to go the way of buggy drivers and calculators.
It doesn't have to happen in one big war. Wars will become more frequent--not just between states but lots of civil wars will break out as people are fed up with governments not dealing with the economic situation. This process has already started, but hasn't progressed to the point where population is in decline.
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I don't know. It serves about as much purpose as occupying a government building.
Who was it who said, "perfect is the enemy of good"? Clean is a subjective term. Fusion is significantly less dirty, so it is clean.
Actually, there are a lot of experiments in non-inductive current generation in tokamaks which can allow it to run continuously (in principle). Current generation is done with a combination of phased microwave antennas, tilted neutral beams, and harnessing a phenomenon called bootstrap current.
(Background: the plasma current in tokamaks is normally generated by a transformer and is called inductive current. The induced current is proportional to the time derivative of the transformer voltage, so for a constant current, there's a limit on available transformer voltage so the current must stop at some point. These non-inductive current generation techniques get around that.)
FYI: The Wendelstein 7-X shot was around 80 MK which is quite a bit hotter than the Sun.
ITER is expected to run at ~300MK in some H-mode scenarios.
You seem to not be aware that fusion research is an open and collaborative project between all nations. We share data, equipment, tokamak run-time, and scientists. Your partisan suspicion is understandable for someone not in the know, but it's totally wrong. The fusion scientific community is well aware of what is going on at EAST (and all other major collaborative facilities), when the machine turns on, when it turns off, when there is a leak, when a diagnostic malfunctions, and when things go well.
At DIII-D (USA), we have built a "remote control room" for EAST and KSTAR so that researchers in US can operate EAST on the third shift when our colleagues in China are sleeping. Control parameters will be transferred to Hefei over the internet and diagnostics will be fed back to the monitors in almost real time.
BTW, I am a fusion research scientist based in US, but I do do some work on EAST as well as other machines.
Yeah, I think it's reading WAY to much into it to say that they placed well because the US education system has improved.
If we let you get ahead, that's isomorphic to letting the other guy get behind. And we can't have that.
You claim to have done research but you haven't presented any, and then you call others lazy for not doing the research themselves. You might as well not have done the research then.
The problem is the practice of requiring admin privileges to install most software. Software should not require admin install unless they really need it. Common frameworks (which are a big user of DLLs) do exacerbate the problem since they often want to be installed in a root location so all the applications can share it.
A solution is to forbid third parties from bundling installers for common framework runtime binaries. If the framework is needed, then either install the binaries in the application directory or tell the user to go install it themself.
Hey, there's still VIA.
Intel can't be too complacent though. Expect some Chinese company to enter the fray.
Who has time for that? Let's say it takes me a couple hours to sue a telemarketer. If it takes me about 5 seconds to pull out my phone, answer a call, listen, and hang up on a telemarketer, and they call maybe once a week, then it'll take over 20 years to equal the time it took to sue the telemarketer. Worse, yet, it's probably not the same telemarketer calling each time, so I'd have to sue each of them in turn.
Or this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I suppose the hyperloop track will look something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Come on, did the author not have room to fit in two words, "zone plate"?
Private entity with state-granted powers. Power with none of the responsibility.
You just have to figure it out yourself. You have years and years to do so. You have more opportunities to become an expert at being you than any doctor does.
That depends. How many of these 2000 cases involved a Muslim?
When you are as big as Apple or Google, everyone is your competitor. Even your own subsidiaries.
The claim was probably something like it takes less resources to produce one calorie of pork than it takes to produce a calorie of lettuce. I wouldn't be very surprised if that's true. Nobody eats lettuce for the calories. Lettuce is practically water. Now do a comparison for grains or potatoes vs meat.
My post wasn't meant as a suggestion.
It worked in China, din't?
My understanding is that farmed fish are mostly fed fish, so we need some fundamental changes in how we farm fish.
Unfortunately, we have people who are against all sorts of regulation, so it can't be fixed.
Perhaps fishers will have to go the way of buggy drivers and calculators.
It doesn't have to happen in one big war. Wars will become more frequent--not just between states but lots of civil wars will break out as people are fed up with governments not dealing with the economic situation. This process has already started, but hasn't progressed to the point where population is in decline.
Birth control... fuck all you want.