• @OhmsLawn
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    557 months ago

    That’s a silly title.

    The sun doesn’t produce a lot of energy because it is hot. The sun produces energy because it is big. All functional experimental fusion reactors operate at much higher temperatures than the sun.

    • @[email protected]
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      -67 months ago

      It’s a straight up factually incorrect title. Heat is a measure of energy. The sun produces 3.9e26 joules of heat per second. So no, they did not surpass the heat of the sun.

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        7 months ago

        Nah, that’s a nitpick. In common English heat is just presence of high temperatures, and there’s no specific word for thermal energy.

        Also, that would be heat/time, so power basically. The sum of all heat currently in the sun would be larger, considering how slow the convection is among other things.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          We’re talking about energy generation, so the distinction is pretty important. I think a layperson can understand that it takes far more heat to boil a pot of water than a match can produce, even if the match is at a higher temperature than the stove top.

          A layperson would describe the heat of a campfire as being much higher than the heat of a candle, even if theyre the same temperature.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            Yeah, I guess that’s fair. They’re definitely talking about temperature, and I think most would understand it that way, because the layman might not even know the connection between higher temperatures and better heat engines, but economically speaking it’s not super relevant. The actual power output is probably negligible; it’s a research machine.

      • @chetradley
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        Heat in terms of temperature is a measure of molecular kinetic energy, so you can say two things are the same temperature regardless of the total energy of the system, which is a function of the change in temperature, mass and specific heat of a substance.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        Even if you get as hot as the core, you’re not doing the same amount of fission unless you have similar pressure at the same time, and no you don’t. It’s a bit complicated by the fact the sun is mostly protium, and has low volumetric energy output as a result, but that’s the gist.

  • @gaael
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    147 months ago

    How many billionaires can be put inside at the same time? Asking for no reason.

      • @CluckN
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        167 months ago

        Pshh no way, my armchair ranting about society has done way more than the Gate’s foundation eradicating polio for the last 40 years.

        • @[email protected]
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          67 months ago

          I can understanding why he’s eradicating polio, too many horses get injured doing it. At least in water polio the horses suffer fewer leg injuries.

      • @[email protected]
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        Raging hot take on Lemmy, but yeah, agreed. He was a bastard to get the money. All that money is going to, like, starving African kids, though. If I was him I’d do the same shit and sleep like a baby.

        Meanwhile, Bezos builds dick rockets and nobody complains, because he keeps out of the headlines.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          Bezos wants to play dragon

          Gates is definitely a good human, but nobody is without flaws. Bezos however wants to be evil. And then there is Musk, thinking he does good but actually is a clown that only causes inconveniences for everyone.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            There’s ~2000 confirmed billionares on Earth. Some do philanthropy, some do evil, but most just enjoy being comically rich, like Jeff.

            Honestly that sounds about like what the people I know would do. This is because it’s all random chance, and they are an average group of people.

            • @[email protected]
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              07 months ago

              Id say its still import how they got so rich, oil people for example are definitely on the evil scale. And thats the more important part, when when you get rich by destroying the world and using literal slave labor you are definitely evil. And this type of billionaire is more common than the good people.

              • @[email protected]
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                17 months ago

                Well, sure, not in the ~2000 are guys like Putin or the Saudi royals. We all know they have way more than just a billion, but we can’t prove it. Then again, there’s a lot of mean people who are still poor. I’ve met some.

                The math is sound. I’m always linking that thing because more people need to know.

      • @Valmond
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        -117 months ago

        My man, you got the brainwash I guess.

        Hes “grants” are usually turned down because you know billionsires want any good things that might come out of it for themselves, so there are so many strings attached you just give any found thing to billy gates. So “good”.

      • Orbituary
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        -117 months ago

        Prove that. Like actually prove that. No billionaire is innocent. No billionaire gets where they are without stepping on necks to do so.

  • @TheWilliamist
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    67 months ago

    “…$30,000 a gram in 2022, almost as precious as a diamond.” 🤨

    • threelonmusketeers
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      47 months ago

      I though that was strange too. I’m sure you can get a gram of industrial diamond dust for much cheaper.