It's sort of unfair to compare tokamak Q with laser Q. Lasers and holrahms are very inefficient at getting energy to the target. I don't have the numbers for the efficiencies of the neutral beams and microwave systems, but they are certainly better.
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Tokamaks are far closer to practicality. In 1997, JET achieved 16 MW of fusion power with 24 MW of heating. ITER will almost certainly achieve much greater than breakeven. The goal is Q=10, where Q is fusion power/input power.
It's called checking facts. AFAIK, the fusion output was something like 8000J, and the laser power was 1.7MJ. The efficiency is quite a bit lower than 1%.
As automation improves, the number of jobs needed to produce things goes down. However, the demand for jobs is very strong so the cost of labor decreases until affluent people are more willing to hire people for generally unnecessary service jobs. However, these service jobs pay very little.
The problem is that as the automation improves, society can increase the cost of labor because less labor is necessary. In this ideal situation, we can all work less but have the same amount of things, But free market seems to result in the cost of labor decreasing.
Why does the price of goods not decrease more than the price of labor? Why doesn't everyone just work less? The reason is that the costs of certain goods do not decrease with automation, such as land and natural resources. Education costs could decrease with automation (the internet), but we haven't quite hit that point yet and education prices are set by powerful guilds. If everything cost 1/2 as much labor to make, people can't just work 1/2 as much because they still have to pay rent.
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With more scientists, there should be more resources to replicate experiments, not less. I'm not saying that's how it works out though.
There are senators who didn't know (or claimed to not know) what was going on.
Bad news for the explorers. De Beers has hired gunmen to shoot anyone who goes near Jupiter.
The criminal justice system in the West is formed entirely from norms formed from its Judeo-Christian history.
Show me a Western country that has a criminal justice system remotely resembling Leviticus.
and women still get abused, more than in Saudi Arabia.
**citation needed**
What most people think only matters in a democracy.
Surely you could come up with a better example. That's a really stretched link. Al Jazeera is a respected news agency and not an oil company.
Two things matter in the geopolitical landscape. Money and Power. Human rights isn't and never was a part of it.
All the voters in Congress are rich.
Rich people don't get rich by not caring about prices. (Unless they won the lottery or they inherited their wealth).
The fees are a deception by the hotels to mess up the analysis of the travel planners.
It is, if you are texting long distance.
Assholes don't cancel each other out.
Dread Pirate Roberts didn't have a crime education or crime pedigree. He seemed rather naive when it came to dealing with problems.
If prisons are better than being homeless, then why don't all the homeless get themselves incarcerated? I think some of them value their freedom.
Trying to run a business without paying for protection.
Natural selection works on average, not on an individual level.
It's sort of unfair to compare tokamak Q with laser Q. Lasers and holrahms are very inefficient at getting energy to the target. I don't have the numbers for the efficiencies of the neutral beams and microwave systems, but they are certainly better.
Tokamaks are far closer to practicality. In 1997, JET achieved 16 MW of fusion power with 24 MW of heating. ITER will almost certainly achieve much greater than breakeven. The goal is Q=10, where Q is fusion power/input power.
It's called checking facts. AFAIK, the fusion output was something like 8000J, and the laser power was 1.7MJ. The efficiency is quite a bit lower than 1%.
Fahrenheit is also based on water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
You know what is better for national security than the most sophisticated and technologically advanced weapons?
Staying on friendly relations with other countries.
That seems like exactly what the cruiser class is supposed to get at.
As automation improves, the number of jobs needed to produce things goes down. However, the demand for jobs is very strong so the cost of labor decreases until affluent people are more willing to hire people for generally unnecessary service jobs. However, these service jobs pay very little.
The problem is that as the automation improves, society can increase the cost of labor because less labor is necessary. In this ideal situation, we can all work less but have the same amount of things, But free market seems to result in the cost of labor decreasing.
Why does the price of goods not decrease more than the price of labor? Why doesn't everyone just work less? The reason is that the costs of certain goods do not decrease with automation, such as land and natural resources. Education costs could decrease with automation (the internet), but we haven't quite hit that point yet and education prices are set by powerful guilds. If everything cost 1/2 as much labor to make, people can't just work 1/2 as much because they still have to pay rent.
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Forcing someone to support corporations sounds a lot more like fascism than socialism.