Anyone have a War Thunder Forum vs Hegseth leaked classified information chart going? War Thunder had a few years head start, but Hegseth seems really committed to overtaking.

I read this in Jake Peralta’s voice.

The cars done even use Tesla’s famous electric motor design (induction motors), I believe they use switched reluctance motors. Def a smart design choice, but not on brand!

Surprisingly, Star Wars is a great example of this. A rinky dink political group (rebels) blowing up a military installation (death star) is terrorism. That does not mean the action was unjustified.

Electric subs have been around since 1881… So almost the first, but just missed the mark. Sorry to fact check.

There’s also ancient Greek and Rome which were republics 2000 and 2500 years ago.

I agree, I think we are witnessing the global influence leader transition from the US to China. All they had to do was provide investments in lower income countries and stability at the national leadership level. The US did the rest by exploiting those same lower income countries for centuries and not providing a stable foreign policy.

It surprises me that bringing the server in house especially for emergency services isn’t a priority.

If their claims are true, yeah. That’s how I read the implications.

I wish we had a brave new world, we’re getting 1984. While a brave new world was unsettling, almost every character enjoyed their lives. We’re getting “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.”

I know you were just using that title because it conveniently fit the sentence. I just needed to get this off my chest.

My one frame every 50 sec is very important to me.

Hey! Fuck you chemicalwonka! Your nuanced, slightly different opinion enrages me! We’re enemies now.

It’s nothing specific to LA, it’s what any city with that population and a car centered infrastructure turns into.

I know that’s probably what you meant, just wanted to add a bit o’ clarity.

Thank you for this researched, thought out answer. I really appreciate the time you put into it. Super interesting topic and I’m glad to learn more!

They can’t control which particles fuse though. The Helion energy reactor still has the particles for deuterium to deuterium fusion. 50% of the time that gives your tritium+p and 50% is He3+n. I don’t know the preference of each fusion event in their reactor, but not all events will produce charged particles.

Trump helps Chinas foreign policy so much. Their goal for decades has been to spread soft power and influence. They’ve been very effective even before Trump. What China is able to provide now is stability. The chaos that Trump sows drives nations away from the USA sphere of influence into the Chinese sphere. All they have to do is not rock the boat, do what they say they’re going to do, and let the US do the advertising for them.

It’s very sad to see an authoritarian state be the bastian of hope for developing nations. It feels like the democratic experiment has failed and authoritarianism is taking control worldwide.

The way I understood it, the system used electromagnets to create a magnetic containment field to drive the fuel together to create the fusion event. That same magnetic containment field would experience a force from the produced charged particles. That force would produce a current in the electromagnets. That current would be stored in capacitors as a voltage which would be used as the energy source for the next magnetic compression cycle. The excess energy stored in the capacitor after the compression would be ‘generated’ energy.

Yes! That is super cool tech. If I remember correctly, only about half of the fusion reaction energy was produced as charged particles though. The other half was free neutrons which are notorious for not interacting with the EM field.

I love the idea, it is such a cool direct energy capture method, but it is inherently inefficient.

I’d love to be proved wrong. I did a quick search and couldn’t find the company I’m thinking of, so I’m going off memory.

That they are, but they’re still spinning magnets like our honorable ancestors did.

It’s why photovoltaics are so cool. Direct electricity generation without having to spin magnets in circles like neanderthals.