Given all of the problems of our world regarding energy, a public smear campaign against undefunded unproven technology which looks like one of our only potential options for improving our situation seems like an odd direction to place your effort.
As the top comment points out there are a lot of issues with this video and the commentator doesn't seem to know the space well.
Totally unsubstantiated but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if some digging turned up a connection to big oil funding.
I got the impression that the video is more about getting real with your expectations. If you want energy, renewables are way to go, instead of hoping for energy from fusion that is still, and will remain for a long time, more of a scientific experiment than commercial undertaking.
No, the top comment is totally unsunbstantiated. It starts by fighting a strawman: "I get the impression that you pressume fusion will help tackle climate change." Even if there was perhaps some such notion, it is not the thesis of the video.
Then another strawman "don't be absurd, plasma is so rarefied so that poking a hole in the reactor wouldn't do anything", while video is talking about something else: immense energy stored in magnetic field of the superconductive magnets.
So I wonder, why are you so quick in "smear campaign" allegations?
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 20.0 ms ] threadAs the top comment points out there are a lot of issues with this video and the commentator doesn't seem to know the space well.
Totally unsubstantiated but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if some digging turned up a connection to big oil funding.
Then another strawman "don't be absurd, plasma is so rarefied so that poking a hole in the reactor wouldn't do anything", while video is talking about something else: immense energy stored in magnetic field of the superconductive magnets.
So I wonder, why are you so quick in "smear campaign" allegations?