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An order of magnitude more power in the same form factor in 30 years isn’t a tiny increment. It was certainly a number of tiny increments to get there. And for those big leaps you’re so desperately looking for, it isn’t one little group sitting down together thinking how they’re going to do something. There are decades of research building out a number of tiny discoveries, combined by a group at an opportune time to put it all together so everyone can talk about this momentous leap that they, from the outside perceived as something new that sprung out of nothing.

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SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yea that again, doesn’t negate what I’ve stated. Tiny increments throughout a technologies life is great, just like ICE vehicles, but it’s tech from the 70s and we need the next leap forward.

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- GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Fusion power is based on the aeolipile and work by Marie Curie. Just because you don’t see the all the incremental steps connecting those devices doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
  
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  - SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    That’s like saying the wheel was invented thousands of years ago…you know what I’m talking about and are just being pedantic about it.
    
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    GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    If I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
    
    Once upon a time, that giant invented the wheel.
    
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  - silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Fusion power ain’t there yet though, bad example?
    
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    GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Fusion power isn’t commercially practical. We could make a working fusion plant right now. It would suck and provide almost no power, but we could make one. And the difference between the one we can make today that barely works and isn’t useful and one that would be useful will be some number of additional incremental steps between where we are today and when that would work. Which is exactly the point. And your attitude of, well we aren’t using it today, so nothing has actually been done, is what I’m criticizing, so thanks for making the point even more obvious.
    
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