Researchers were able to produce 2.5 megajoules of energy, 120 per cent of the 2.1 megajoules used to power the experiment.
Now we must wait to see if this is an aberration and can be done at scale. I'm ready for the world to change :party-parrot-science:
Government workers got the goods, fuck you capitalism, great 'innovation' you have :fidel-salute:
Of course. That's the purpose of government research in the US. R&D is extremely expensive with uncertain results. Better to let the government spend public money on all the hard parts then give it to private corporations who can ruthlessly exploit it for maximum profit.
It was wild taking my biological sciences ethics class and they said pretty much explicitly that that’s the US’s strategy and that it’s a good thing. And I was like “Hey maybe the profit motive being involved in science research is bad, actually” and most people in the class looked at me like I’d grown 3 heads.
They also didn’t appreciate when I said “No actually you having a PhD does not make your labor inherently more valuable and in fact a lot of the work would get done without you but none would get done without the people actually doing your experiments.” Academics are such pretentious fucking narcissistic babies I hate them so much
Have to recommend Jeff Schmidt’s Disciplined Minds if you haven’t read it. I’m not even involved in STEM but I’m interested in science and live in an area with a lot of highly paid scientists who are absolutely unbearable human beings. That book helped me understand why they’re such fucking pieces of shit.