from Hacker News

Fusion is not 20 years in the future.It’s 50 years in the past–and we missed it

by zero_kool on 9/4/20, 5:40 AM with 14 comments

• by ALittleLight on 9/4/20, 6:48 AM

  "The deuterium in a single cubic meter of seawater contains the as much energy as nearly 1,400 barrels of crude oil - enough to supply the civilizaton's energy needs for hundreds of millions of years - until long after the Sun itself has flamed out."

  What does that sentence mean? It seems like a claim that the energy of 1,400 barrels of crude oil is enough to sustain civilization for a long time, but that seems implausible to me. Also, off by an order of magnitude on the timeline for the sun burning out.

  Whenever I read stuff like this now I start to get paranoid that this is written by GPT-3.

• by joeberon on 9/4/20, 6:49 AM

  I can’t possibly believe that this would not already have been pounced on by both scientists and major governments if it were as promising as made out here, sorry.

• by vbezhenar on 9/4/20, 6:51 AM

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor : Fusors are not considered a viable concept for large-scale energy production by scientists.