POSIWID (“the purpose of a system is what it does”): If a system constantly fails to achieve its stated purpose, then its purpose is an unstated one, no matter how often politicians or business leaders insist otherwise.

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Joe Kernen interviews Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO Bob Mumgaard on commercial fusion power.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/12/18/powering-up-virginia-worlds-first-grid-scale-commercial-fusion-power-plant.html

“So it’s ready.”

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Doomberg is skeptical: “The problems it purports to solve are the manufactured product of Malthusian environmentalists.”

If fusion solves problems that don’t exist, why the attention?

https://newsletter.doomberg.com/p/fit-for-purpose (Recommended)

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