NeuronautML

@NeuronautML@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried looking around but this humble soul doesn’t have much in the way of receiving donations. I suggest contacting him via github.com/Catfriend1 to ask for an alternative and if he gets back to you, share it here for other people who dislike paypal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fyi the syncthing-fork guy who’s still updating has a donating button on F-droid via Liberapay. It’s up to you if your financial situation allows you to donate, but the more of us help the remaining developers for their time, in particular those of us that rely so much in their work, the better we’ll be off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good method for a non-technical person to short the terminals of two 0402 resistors ~1mm apart?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If i didn’t have a soldering iron, I’d probably grab a diode or resistor leg and snip it just enough to bridge the gap and press it down on the contacts and use super glue to hold it in place until it held and hope the glue doesn’t block the contacts.

  But this is an extremely shoddy solution and i doubt it will last long. A soldering iron for students can be pretty cheap and I’m only suggesting this alternative so you have some sort of solution that doesn’t involve one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the dream of nuclear fusion dead? Why the international experimental reactor is in ‘big trouble’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the problem is that people are expecting nuclear fusion soon. This is just the first step for the demonstration of the easiest form of nuclear fusion, which is Deuterium-Tritium fusion. It will take a lot of work and a lot of money which is absolutely out of reach of any private company worldwide. However once the engineering is in, private companies will take over, much like they are sort of taking over the space industry now.

  The real prize is Helium-3-Helium-3 fusion which theoretically produces no radioactive byproducts or contamination, as it has no free neutrons in the reaction. We are incredibly far from that kind of feat. Deuterium-Tritium fusion still produces neutrons, which means it also produces irradiated nuclear waste from reactor components and reaction byproducts.

  This will take a long time to make, but it’s definitely worth pursuing and will absolutely change the lives of our great grandchildren. The media needs to stop publishing the “fusion is just around the corner” articles, because it most definitely is not. This is a project no private company can afford, not even a single country can afford. It most certainly will not be here to stop our current climate change problems, but fission is here now and we should use that. It doesn’t mean we should stop pursuing fusion, but the fact of the matter is, sustainable fusion requires massive prohibitively expensive reactors. For the Helium-3 fusion, it also requires space facilities to extract it, since it’s incredibly rare on Earth, which requires space stations and all the logistical facilities to store it and bring it to earth as well.

  This is a multi generational mega project unlike anything we’ve accomplished before. Demonstration of fusion may be sort of around the corner, but sustainable, nuclear waste free large scale fusion for grid supply is way, way down the line. We will need a permanent space presence before we get there.

  So yeah the dream is not dead, the project is not in trouble, the only thing dead here is the media hype and a lot of the public’s expectations. I get they’re trying to generate hype so more fusion projects get funded but creating this sort of expectations will only hurt us long term. We are very much at the drawing board phase of the R&D phase still.