• a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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    10 months ago

    There's some older work, specifically Maguire, T., Molina, A., et al (2004) building off of Lee, S. and Ditko, S. (1963) that looks at the disastrous societal consequences the unintended side effects that these 'green energy drives' can produce.

    • SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org
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      10 months ago

      The solution to cars isn't greener cars. It's replacing cars with something else completely, like human powered vehicles or multi-passenger transport. /c/fuck_cars has the right idea

      • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        human powered vehicles

        I am pessimistically imagining Musk and Bezos carried in giant glitzy palanquins

        • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          No no no, you gotta be optimistic about imagining Musk and Bezos being publically [redacted] by their palanquin bearers

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          actually there are massive government research facilities into fusion power and France and the UK work with China on that one. It just hasn't panned out yet

              • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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                10 months ago

                Well yes, the current issue is that the systems were designed way ahead of the computational power to assess how the plasma would behave in such conditions so dealing with fluid instabilities that arises from the most microscopic of target asymmetriea occupies the bulk of their time.

                If they had another 4 billion dollars to build the system entirely from scratch I actually think they could get fusion based on what they know now. But they don't and it works for weapons complex integration with is in the end what the DOE cares about so yeah

        • YouKnowIt [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          Power-crazed cyborgs would never invest in that, it's all government funded. Our benevolent technocratic overlords are like the pharma companies, they'll just leap on it like rabid pitbulls after it's developed to make as much money as possible

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        I agree, but we can’t replace cars entirely anyway, which is why prioritizing public transportation while also improving personal vehicles is what China does. It’s just that they’re making their cars affordable as well as their trains and buses, while Europeans get angry that their shit is so expensive

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      [stares at names for several minutes looking for the ligma-style joke]

      • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Alfred Molina is real, he also went by Dr. Octopus after successfully defending his thesis on electronic mind-altering evil robot tentacle arms.