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.
Like 10x for takamak iirc
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Its actually pretty “easy” to get hotter than the sun
An electrical arc is as hot as the surface of the sun.
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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.
How many billionaires can be put inside at the same time? Asking for no reason.
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Pshh no way, my armchair ranting about society has done way more than the Gate’s foundation eradicating polio for the last 40 years.
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.
And don’t get us started on ricket! /s
Prove that. Like actually prove that. No billionaire is innocent. No billionaire gets where they are without stepping on necks to do so.
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Show me an innocent billionaire. Quit simping for them. Gates is “least bad?” He has a PR firm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html
You do the rest. Here’s the start.
You do the rest
That’s not how this works
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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”.
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.
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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.
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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.
Did it produce surplus energy?
Shhh, we’re talking about heat generation
“…$30,000 a gram in 2022, almost as precious as a diamond.” 🤨
I though that was strange too. I’m sure you can get a gram of industrial diamond dust for much cheaper.
BP and Shell: 👀
Article says Shell invested $160m in Zap in 2022.
The smart ones are investing in renewables.
