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fetcheveryone
fetcheveryone
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fetcheveryone
I remember AI being a while away too :-)
rf_fozzy
rf_fozzy
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Given it hasn't been shown to work on an experimental scale, never mind anyone developing a commerical working prototype, nor anyone even thinking about safety parameters and regulations, any talk of any commercial station is to put it bluntly, bullshitting.
rf_fozzy
rf_fozzy
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2:28pm, 8 Feb 2024
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To give an idea of scale, Fission was demonstrated experimentally in 1934.

The first commercial nuclear fission power plant was built in 1956.

We haven't even demonstrated it works experimentally yet.

That's not to say it's not worth doing, it is. But anyone expecting anything this side of at least 2050 is just deluding themselves.
jda
jda
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2:49pm, 8 Feb 2024
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AI still is a long way away :-)

Synthetic bullshit generation, on the other hand, has been around since Eliza. Since then I think we've learnt more about the gullibility of humans than we have about the ability of machines to behave intelligently.
fetcheveryone
fetcheveryone
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👍
Nellers
Nellers
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And talking of gullibility we’re going to have fusion power commercially before the next election innit.😉
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
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"UK’s prototype fusion energy plant which aims to be built by 2040...." so 16 years away according to the UK Atomic Energy Authority / government...? :-) G
rf_fozzy
rf_fozzy
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4:02pm, 8 Feb 2024
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lol. BS

Hinckley Point C construction began in 2016/7 and will be lucky to be completed by 2030.

en.wikipedia.org

And that's for a fusion design that already has been constructed at other plants (albeit always with massive cost overruns and delays).

en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
jda
jda
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4:05pm, 8 Feb 2024
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It'll be up and running just after those 40 hospitals are completed.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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Is that when we get all that money back promised on the side of the bus?

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