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There were people that worked on flight their whole lives without an airplane ever being built. That's the way it goes sometimes. Fusion energy will be a real
by onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
There were people that worked on flight their whole lives without an airplane ever being built.
That's the way it goes sometimes.
Fusion energy will be a reality at some point.
Tons of people worked their entire lives on it and retired and died without seeing a reactor built.
- m463 4y agoInteresting acceleration of technology. It's been possible for decades for people to build/buy and fly their own planes. Nowadays it's possible for an individual to put up a satellite or get a chip made. I wonder if in the future kids will achieve fusion.
- foota 4y agoI realize this isn't what you meant, but fusion is readily achievable, and has been done by children: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Wilson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Wilson. It's energy positive fusion that's hard.
- zamnos 4y agoIn a similar vein, cold fusion's also possible, it's just not energy-positive, and not a power source. But the mere mention of those two words together means no one read the rest of that sentence.
- foota 4y agoSorry, it looks like your comment might have gotten cut off, was there more after "similar vein"? :-)
- beefman 4y agoWho worked on flight their whole lives without ever building a plane, 50 years after the airplane had been demonstrated? Even in fusion, people are usually building machines. It seems to me the "paper reactor" situation in fission is rather unique. The only precedent I can think of is perhaps the abandonment of shipbuilding in Ming China.
- grecy 4y agoFriends worked at NASA with people who went their entire careers without ever having a project build any hardware...