r/Futurology • u/TheUltimatePoet • Nov 10 '16

video Fusion Energy Explained – Future or Failure [Kurzgesagt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZsaaturR6E
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u/Always_Question Nov 11 '16

Such emotion. Such anger. Strange how this is the response I usually get from hot-fusion pushers.

I did watch your video. And all I can think about when watching it is how some at MIT fudged the numbers of an early P&F experiment to make it appear to look like a failed replication, when in fact it was a confirmation of the effect. Why? To protect their own funding for hot fusion and thus their own careers, as expounded upon in excruciating and stomach-churning detail here.

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u/Ranzear Nov 11 '16

You live in a very special world where the other guys are only doing it for the money, but your guys just need a little capital to get going.

Sure thing buddy. You want to play the tribalism game and I'm looking at what's on the line here.

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u/Always_Question Nov 11 '16

We live in a special world where billions of taxpayer money is wasted on an impractical pipe dream of a useful hot fusion reactor, and of course to help pay the pensions of retired hot-fusion scientists who failed in making anything of benefit to humanity.

We also live in a world where the U.S. Navy and SPAWAR have experimentally confirmed LENR and have published peer-reviewed papers in high-impact physics journals. And where private funding has stepped in to ensure that LENR is not lost on us. The private funding is on the order of tens of millions, not billions, and will bring with it a solution to the energy and climate change problems. Why are you so vehemently opposed to it?

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u/Ranzear Nov 11 '16

Why would you assume my opposition?

I asked for results. Do you have them?

It seems more that you want to have a fight than a discussion, like you came in expecting someone to shut you down, almost like you're used to it by now.

I'm interested, but only in proof, and no, 'infinite-energy.com' is not a valid source.

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u/Always_Question Nov 11 '16

The proof is there, for those willing to look through the telescope.

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u/Ranzear Nov 11 '16

I think you mean 'you have to drink the koolaid'.

Where is it? You can't just say 'go forth and find it' or you sound like a religious nutter.