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The Bulletin: February 6-12, 2025
The Bulletin: February 6-12, 2025 CLICK HERE The Crises Yet To Come When efficiency becomes a problem: Jevons Paradox in the Age of AI – Conhecimento Hoje Supercharging the Predicaments We Face Please, be a NIMBY – by Elisabeth Robson Nuclear Fusion Is Just More Bullshit Break the Consumption Cycle Why pervasive media propaganda […]
Futurus Interruptus
Futurus Interruptus Most of the time, in writing these essays, I try to treat the decline of industrial society with the seriousness that it deserves. Sometimes, though, the plain raw absurdity of our current situation rises to a point that only raucous laughter can address. I ran into another of those points a few days […]
Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation
Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation Like a third rate zombie movie on Netflix, delusions of nuclear fusion repeatedly rise from the dead. The cover story in the June 2023 issue of Scientific American by Philip Ball, “Star Power: Does Fusion Have a Future After All?” recycles the corporate line which was broadcast on December 13, […]
‘Silence of the Ecomodernists’ & ‘Fusion Confusion’
‘Silence of the Ecomodernists’ & ‘Fusion Confusion’
Nuclear Fusion: Don’t Believe the Hype!
Nuclear Fusion: Don’t Believe the Hype! Photo by Ilja Nedilko In a dramatic scientific and engineering breakthrough, researchers at the Bay Area’s Lawrence Livermore National Lab recently achieved the long-sought goal of generating a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than was directly injected into a tiny reactor vessel. By the very next day, pundits […]
Fusion!
Fusion! How hydrogen fusion will save us (or not) A recent breakthrough in an experimental fusion reactor has created a shock-wave of news rippling through mainstream media. Writers from all stripes waxed lyrical how this is a major step forward, and how it brings us closer to a ‘clean, safe, almost limitless’ energy source. Reality though […]
Fusion Breakthrough is a Nuclear Nothing Burger
FUSION BREAKTHROUGH IS A NUCLEAR NOTHING BURGER The U.S. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory kicked off its year-end Go-Fund-Me drive last week announcing a nuclear fusion breakthrough. “The fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes. Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.” –Financial Times, December 11, 2022 […]
The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Two: No More Secondhand Futures
The Revolt of the Imagination, Part Two: No More Secondhand Futures In a post here two weeks ago I discussed the disastrous failure of imagination on the part of the industrial world’s governing classes. Since then—well, let’s just say that for connoisseurs of elite cluelessness, it’s a target-rich environment out there. We’ll choose one such […]
The Theranos Trial Shows Why We Should Be Suspicious of Nuclear Fusion
The Theranos Trial Shows Why We Should Be Suspicious of Nuclear Fusion Former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Amy Osborne/Getty Images The Theranos story is an epic tale of folly with lots of twists and turns, but it’s by no means unique. At the very same moment the play-by-play of the Elizabeth Holmes trial sprawls […]
The only thing worse than an energy collapse
The only thing worse than an energy collapse We learned recently that one of the last coal power stations in the UK is bidding to become the first commercial nuclear fusion plant on Earth. The news should be taken with a large pinch of salt… nuclear fusion has been 25 years in the future since before I […]
China’s “Artificial Sun” Sets World Record Running At 120 MILLION Degrees For 101 Seconds
China’s “Artificial Sun” Sets World Record Running At 120 MILLION Degrees For 101 Seconds China’s goal is to develop clean energy sources through next-generation nuclear fusion technology. Chinese researchers have achieved a new world record after scientists developing an “artificial sun” ran the device on Friday at a record-shattering temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for […]
Fusion is the only possible way to replace fossil fuels. So how is ITER doing?
Fusion is the only possible way to replace fossil fuels. So how is ITER doing? Preface. This website, and my book, When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the future of transportation, and Martin Hoffert, et al in the 2002 Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet, Science. Vol 298 argue […]
The energy revolution will not be televised
The energy revolution will not be televised Three recent news items remind us that energy transitions take time, a lot of time–far too much time to be shrunk down into a television special, a few talking points, or the next big energy idea. For example, the complex management task of putting together the international fusion […]
