The fusion breakthrough that the US Energy Department announced this week is scientifically significant, but the significance relates to the monitoring of the country’s nuclear weapons stockpike, not to clean electricity generation.
Source: The Energy Department’s fusion breakthrough: It’s not really about generating electricity
“The generation of folks that built the original bombs, they’re basically retired or gone altogether. Now we have a whole slew of new folks, youngsters. They’re supposed to know how to do this. Some of them were in place already during the ‘70s and ‘80s, when we were still designing and building weapons. But even those people are getting long in the tooth; they’re going to be gone from the labs in the next 20 years or so. And so now you’re looking at, you know, kids from my perspective, in their 30s. And you want to train them how to do this.”
Shortage of skilled workers. 100 years from now we won’t know how to test these things for rals. reminds me of the atomic missle worshipping thing in planet of the apes.
