But will Fusion ever be cheaper than solar?
Eventually. But, much like traditional fission power, you’ll need a very large and complex piece of infrastructure to deliver it.
You won’t be able to put a fusion plant in your basement like you can put solar on your roof.
Practical power production through nuclear fusion still requires significant developments for it to be realised at scale, though several startups are already planning to deliver it within the next few years.
US-based Helion Energy secured the world’s first purchase agreement for nuclear fusion energy in 2023, promising to provide 50MW of fusion power to Microsoft by 2028.
I mean, time will tell. But that seems a bit sooner than 2100.
One begins to question how she was awarded the prize in the first place
US doesn’t want a Russian outpost
Is that what Guantanamo Bay is for? To beat back the Russian invasion?
Cause I remember it being used for something different
Cuba has been the end game for Trump since his first term. Any liberal who continues to endorse and support the blockade is as MAGA as the rest of these chuds
I mean, again, this joke gets made all the time.
But you do need to know your audience. OP seems to think “we’re trying to have a baby” is personally offensive, so I have to assume they have very thin skin.
There’s good, actually.
Smaller communities don’t fill up with annoying bots and toxic personalities
Communities driven by bots should die
The funny thing about the comic is that I’ve heard this exact joke from a gay couple, responding to a straight couple saying it.
“What’s your New Years plans?”
“This year, we’re finally going for it. We’re going to try for a baby”
“Oh honey… messy kiss with partner… we’ve been going in raw for years. But hope you have better luck.”
Basically the state of RedditLemmy atm
And then, despite finding out that Moody was in fact a Death Eater trying to kill him the whole time, somehow that didn’t taint his opinion on the Auror thing at all.
Moody wasn’t trying to kill him. He’d been kidnapped and replaced by a Death Eater in order to infiltrate the school. At the end of book 4, the deception is revealed and the death eater is arrested by the Aurors.
The real Moody returns in book 5 and serves as a loyal companion and mentor through the end of the series.
He had more experience by then end of the 7th book fighting Dark Wizards than most Aurors at the ministry would have. That job would have been boring as hell after Voldemort and the Death Eaters were defeated.
Voldemort is just the latest in a long line of evil wizards. They’re stubbornly common place.
I do think Harry’s career as an Auror can’t last. The best “old man Potter” story is going to read like a Harry Dresden novel - a washed up ex-cop turned private eye with as many enemies in the bureaucracy as the underworld.
But it’s reasonable for Harry to consider joining the Aurors after graduation, only to find out the hard way what being a Wizard Cop means in practice.
They can’t even shut down the base in Greenland. There’s a reason DeGaulle kicked the US out in 1966. And why Okinawa residents have been lobbying to shut down the local base for decades.
Europeans have been under military occupation since the end of WW2, telling themselves the gun pointed at the back of their heads was aimed at the USSR, even after it dissolved.
Now they’re going to have to deal with a foreign hostile occupation whose roots have grown deep
I don’t understand. Trump’s only been president for 368 days.
Extrovert = Has Friends
Liberal Arts degrees are fantastically useful in the fields of sales and marketing. Tons of MBAs have liberal arts undergrad degrees. Tons of lawyers have liberal arts degrees. Tons of real estate agents have liberal arts degrees. Tons of professional con artists, police agents, and intelligence officers have liberal arts degrees.
The idea that the degree is useless, that you can’t get a job, or that you are only able to work in academia is entirely false.
The problem with these degrees is that they teach you how to be horrifyingly evil and then politely ask you not to, while dangling an enormous bucket of cash in your face to do exactly that.
And I can’t even start to worry about the climate right now.
That’s a shame, because we are fucking in for it as the Colorado dries up in our winter heat wave. Nevermind what’s going to happen to Poland or Macedonia. I’d be worried what happens between Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California during the next growing season.
Scientist: “Any interaction could alter history!”
Another Scientist: “Bro, meteor’s still going to hit if we kick back a few brews and dino-wrangle.”
Third Scientist: “Way… hic ahead of you. YEHAW!”
If Russia were to attack Europe, or China were to take Taiwan, Trump wouldn’t do a thing about it.
Trump’s cabinet is stuffed to the brim with people who are crazy enough to fight a war with China. What they can’t handle is China not invading Taiwan and, instead, stacking up China-friendly political allies on the island until the Parliament tips their way.
Meanwhile, Russians are damned near out of gas. They barely have the manpower to control that eastern slice of Ukraine. If they launched attacks into the European mainland and provoked a real material response from a combined Western Europe, they would be in huge trouble. But, again, that was never really Putin’s intention. He’s been building up alliances with white nationalist parties all across the continent. By 2030, you’re going to have a swath of ultra-nationalists running every Parliament from the AfD in Germany to Reform UK.
And he’s going to be doing it in coordination with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and India. Countries America bribed into a temporary alliance aren’t going to be there when the US economy goes into another recessionary tailspin. That’s what will really fuck NATO up.
And all this happening on the eve of a climate catastrophe, too.
I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago. And electric cars. And cloud computing, even.
It was never going to be economically viable. Always ten years away from viability. Not competitive with whatever the industry leader was at the time.
Really putting all your chips on “nothing ever changes”