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Nuclear fusion is potentially the last energy technology humanity will ever need. So why donβt we have it yet? Despite major breakthroughs, fusion reactors still face enormous engineering challenges. From extreme temperatures to neutron radiation and material limitations, building a working fusion power plant may be the single hardest problem humans have ever tackled. So is fusion really just β10 years awayβ? Noted Dude-terium Kyle Hill explains.
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nationalacademies.org/read/25991/chapter/6
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590238524004491
energy.sustainability-directory.com/question/what-are-fusions-challenges-to-overcome
iter.org/few-lines
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Nuclear fusion is potentially the last energy technology humanity will ever need. So why donβt we have it yet? Despite major breakthroughs, fusion reactors still face enormous engineering challenges. From extreme temperatures to neutron radiation and material limitations, building a working fusion power plant may be the single hardest problem humans have ever tackled. So is fusion really just β10 years awayβ? Noted Dude-terium Kyle Hill explains.
SOURCES:
nationalacademies.org/read/25991/chapter/6
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590238524004491
energy.sustainability-directory.com/question/what-are-fusions-challenges-to-overcome
iter.org/few-lines
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![Insect Apocalypse - Silent Extinction
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It is generally accepted that we are now at the beginning of a sixth mass extinction. Its caused by humans, and it might be the first that affects the six-legged arthropods among us. Noted Bug Zaddy Kyle Hill explains whatβs happening to the insects, and what will happen to us if we let them disappear forever.
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12816
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2023989118
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(19)30796-1.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article/114/2/99/6056214
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations#
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/
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![Fallouts Cold Fusion Problem
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Was #Falloutβs βartifactβ really worth transporting a severed head across the wasteland? Could the technology inside really determine the fate of the wilds? Noted Nuclear Zaddy Kyle Hill explains the science of βcold fusion,β and how he would have ended the first season of the new show.
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![Why the Three-Body Problem is Unsolvable*
What is the THREE-BODY PROBLEM? What does it have to do with the award-winning book of the same name? And how can it help us understand problems that are practically⦠unsolvable? Noted Space Zaddy Kyle Hill explains.
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