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This might have something to do with it:

The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” the directive states, a sign of the agency’s concern about a joint project China and Russia have launched.

Unexpectedly, it doesn’t seem like this is a primarily technical decision.

In a 1996 Rolling Stone interview, when asked if he could go back and choose a more culturally acceptable name for the band, Haynes replied, “I would name the band: I’m Going to Shit in Your Mother’s Vagina.”

Fucking legend

Sure - they’re claiming to do two very difficult things simultaneously (net positive fusion and transmute mercury to gold at scale) which makes me even more skeptical. It’s like saying “Not only can pigs fly, but we’ve taught them to simultaneously do calculus.”

This article says (5 tonnes/yr) per GW produced. It’s a fusion reactor, so it’s making electricity, not consuming it.

At $0.05/kWh, 1 GWh of electricity is $438 million. At $3400/troy ounce, 5 tonnes of gold is $545 million. So that jives with the company’s estimate on the article that the sale of gold could double their revenue.

All bunk, of course

Worse - agreeing with him, or saying it makes them like him better. It seems like an awful mix of edgelords and actual racists.

I read a few of those replies… holy crap Twitter sucks

The job posting uses the word “obsess” twice - no frigging thank you