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I smell fake news, this looks like a cash grab on an industry where it's easy to say "didn't work, but hey, we tried, see you on the next one". Patents instead
by ranguna 4y ago
I smell fake news, this looks like a cash grab on an industry where it's easy to say "didn't work, but hey, we tried, see you on the next one".
Patents instead of research papers. Business decisions instead of research. Looks corporate all the way down with just some hints of science to make it believable for investors.
I love this YouTube channel, but I think he got scammed for some really bad snake oil on this one. It just smells fake throughout the whole video.
- phtrivier 4y agoSorry to say I felt pretty much the same way (although, the acknowledgement that the theory was not new, but the path was not followed simply because of lack of available tech sounds plausible.) Apparently Helion is a YC company, so if they fooled the investors, than it means those investors are more foolish than you would expect :/ ... Now, either they'll publish in "Science" or "Applied Whatever", and it's #RoadToNobelPrize ; or they'll get their face on the cover of Time, and we'll know for sure it's a scam. (In which case, this documentary will serve as reference footage when someone has to shoot the Helion version of "Bad Blood" ?)
- dogma1138 4y agoWhat here is exactly Nobel prize worthy? There is no new physics here fusion was always an engineering challenge the physics is rather well understood.
- moloch-hai 4y agoPlasma fluid dynamics is arbitrarily hard. It counts as physics.
- kjeetgill 4y agoThe Nobel Prizes are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." I'd always heard it as: It's not just about new physics but about impact for actual people. Is it awarded that way? I couldn't say. But cracking fusion sounds worthy to me.