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director of nuclear fusion research at mit was murdered

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https://apnews.com/article/mit-shooting-nuno-fg-loureiro-portugal-f310824e354180816c33c9f40c0c5195

> Loureiro, who joined MIT in 2016, was named last year to lead MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he aimed to advance clean energy technology and other research. The center, one of the school’s largest labs, had more than 250 people working across seven buildings when he took the helm.

IF it was a conspiracy, I'd speculate that he had integrity and therefore he may have posed a significant risk to a massive fusion research funding grift.

I'm biased, as I believe many of these technologies that nobody can legitimately explain are fraudulent.

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Kayne 3w ago

Fusion is combining elements to create new ones, it releases a bunch of energy when you do it, it's how the sun works.

U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D 3w ago

You explained the theory much more directly and concisely than most PhDs.

Unfortunately, there's a vast chasm between theory and practice and the research industrial complex may be corrupt.

Similar to CERN and QC, billions in funding has yielded zero practical utility.

In just the last five years, VCs have invested over $10B in magnetic/plasma fusion reactor research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svtFbF3O_ws

wymike 3w ago

CERN proved the existence of the Higgs boson.

Impossible to say what the utility of this will be in the future.

We’d be in a much more basic world without funding for science.

Kayne 3w ago

Scientific progress takes time.

They gotta build stuff do experiments, then rebuild things again and do more experiments.

Fusion has been demonstrated, it'll be another 20 years before it's a commercially viable option for energy generation.

But it has been demonstrated

U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D 3w ago

Despite the PR hype, the feasibility of net energy production via plasma fusion reactor has not been demonstrated. They're not even close. The materials science alone may be an insurmountable challenge.

The problem that arises is that very few researchers are capable of making an accurate distinction between hype and real-world potential, particularly at the production system level.

These researchers and their lab directors are highly incentivized to error towards the hype end of the spectrum. If the guys cutting ten-figure checks had a clearer picture of the reality, they might reconsider continued investment.

This may be relevant to to the alleged murder.

Kayne 3w ago

If USA was the only country working on it you'd have a point.

The Chinese researcher that demonstrated it are state funded.

I think the biggest issue is that the elements required for the technology are incredibly rare.

"Awesome, unlimited and clean electricity generation"

*25 years later*

"oh shit we ran out of whatever that crucial element was called"