alt Hacker News… and like fusion it will be a decade away, a decade away, a decade away, six months away, then we have it.
The “decade away” phenomenon comes from the fact that it’s basically impossible to time estimate innovation.
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meltyness • today at 12:24 PM
... and room temperature superconductors! If only we could sort out the feasibility, interdependencies, and priorities, but we just don't know, or well, I just don't know haha.
I went to school in Oxfordshire in the '80s. Some visiting profs from JET joked that fusion was 25 years away then.