doaberylroll [he/him]

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Cake day: August 2nd, 2022

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  • Here, they use a fusion reaction (which probably won't be net energy positive by itself) to release a flurry of neutrons on demand to induce fission in uranium. As far as I can tell, this means that you don't have to keep your fuel at close-to-critical conditions to sustain useful amounts of fission, you can induce it on demand using the fusion reaction. Full disclosure, I'm a materials scientist, not a nuclear engineer.







  • Of course co-ops would be materially better for workers than the current state of affairs, but to paraphrase LivAgar, "the hell of capitalism isn't that you have a boss, the hell is that you are forced to compete with other workers in a labor market". Even if all companies were co-ops, the necessity of cutting costs to remain competitive in nder capitalism provides incentives for workers to self exploit, damage the environment, etc.