ByteJunk

That's over 1h of driving, even without traffic, each way. Are you mental?

Even with mass transit here, you don't do that commute every day for several years - you rent a room closer to the uni, and go back home only during weekends.

Edit: sorry I just realised you said that's total per day. Still might be cheaper to rent...

You guys are getting paid??

Right? What devilry holds them up like that, and how are they so neatly aligned, almost like in a line??

Throw them in the fire! And the towels too.

Not sure if the same applies to WinZip though.

True, but that's just one part of the process, and it's not comparing to the initial energy in the source fuel.

If nothing else, there's an absolute efficiency limit from Carnot's theorem, but in reality it's much lower, even for the most modern and efficient gas plants, the limit seems to be ~60%, and for nuclear or coal, it's even lower at around 30-40%.

I call it Bytejunkium, but I don't think it catched on.

I'm not disputing what the current gold standard is, I'm looking for theoretical possibilities.

When you say heat, in fusion, most of the energy would be a neutron moving really fast, right? It sucks that it doesn't have a charge because then it would be really easy, but there's options here if we get creative.

Maybe there's some sort of material yet to be invented that can be slapped by a neutron and "deformed" in a way that causes electrons to shift/make holes and exploit that to make electricity.

And that free neutron will eventually decay into a proton and electron, and those have a charge, so if we keep them going around a loop until that happens perhaps we could harness it.

U looking fine, girl! ❤️

...they found a clever way to induce a current using temperature differentials between the molten salt and some sort of coolant mass?

But you'd have to allow the sun to leak out of the donut, and I'm not too sure that sun-leaking donuts are OSHA approved.

I refuse to believe this.

You're telling me that Humanity is able to understand what goes on at the heart of stars, and is on the brink of being able to harness that power ("Soon TM"), and the best we can come up with is a big tea kettle? I'm not buying it.

There's got to be a better way of capturing all that energy - like, solar panels but for other types of radiation? Or if that's not possible because wavelengths or something , maybe make something glow and use normal panels? Or like, can't we take a particle accelerator and flip it around and pull energy from the particles that go zooming?

I'm sure there's a reason why all of that is hard, but surely not impossible?

I don't see any republican ever voting democrat, most of them seem too far gone into the echo chambers, which just keep growing and growing as they consolidate the media.

The only thing that may still break that path is the Iran war jacking gas prices so high that a substantial number of MAGAs abstain out of rage, otherwise goodbye America.

I'm wondering if poly market has odds for the US breaking up like the USSR in the next decade