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For what it's worth, this is the kind of comment that looks hilarious in retrospect after every major breakthrough. YC has demonstrated they aren't just throwi
by rtfeldman 11y ago
For what it's worth, this is the kind of comment that looks hilarious in retrospect after every major breakthrough.
YC has demonstrated they aren't just throwing darts here, so vague pessimism is not the best default.
- kolbe 11y agoI am literally asking "what?" Because I don't know of any common idea that is even in the realm of this. I'm hoping someone knew something about the process they're pursuing that is not commonly known among cargo cult physicists like myself.
- titanomachy 11y ago> The Helion reactor will fire a steady stream of plasmoids from each side into a chamber, where the fuel is crushed by magnetic fields until fusion begins. Within one second, the fusion products are channelled away just as the next pair of plasmoids hurtles in. “The analogy we like to make is to a diesel engine,” says the company's chief executive, David Kirtley. “On each stroke you inject the fuel, compress it with the piston it until it ignites without needing a spark, and the explosion pushes back on the piston.” http://www.nature.com/news/plasma-physics-the-fusion-upstarts-1.15592 http://www.nature.com/news/plasma-physics-the-fusion-upstart... EDIT: This admittedly isn't very much information, but it's more than I could find on their official site.
- themartorana 11y agoCargo Cult physicists, Nobel winning physicists...
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- jeffreyrogers 11y agoThe reason those kinds of comments look ridiculous is because no one bothered to look up the thousands of other comments that people posted about similarly ridiculous sounding things that never panned out.