Warszawa wrote:

joboggi wrote:The next big things in science

1. Unlimited power from Nuclear fusion. Now that they have super computers and supercoducting magnets they JUST produced a commercial level of power, for about 30 seconds in Germany.

Think the sun in a big crock pot.

Really.

ETA 10-20 years MAny think the group in Vancouver will win this race.

2. Desktop Quantum computing.

This is too freaky to believe so read about it. Especially the Australian effort, which is ahead in some ways.

ETA 10 years

3. Crispr revolution.

You can take out any gene you want if you know how, and then fix it, or delete it or what have you. WOW. China CRISPR babies, human one, will be announced this year or next. Dozens of them.

Really

4. Ultra Ultra fast Internet via starlink.

Elon will be lifting the entire star system of small satellites with the Starship huge rocket ship. When I designed something like this just after the Columbia disaster, the NASA engineers said, no one will want that rocket.

aha.

5. Ford and GM have gone electric, although apparantly they have not committed to doing away with their trucks, yet.

The electric car is only being sold well by Tesla. Jaguar may have hit a home run. Porche will obviously bring it in. Rivian may well sell many of the players the chassis/drivetrain/suspension. Who is Rivian.

6. Along with Crispr the designer drug tsunami will cure all cancer and AD within 30 years.

7. That means we will all be posting here in the year 2060.

8. Climate change - by 2100 everyone’s life is going to be #$!&@

Warszawa wrote:8. Climate change - by 2100 everyone’s life is going to be shit

joboggi wrote:recent prices

wind 2 cents a KW
Solar 3 cents a KW.

CO2 peaked in 2005.

All in all, the MAJOR move by TESLA to change the automobile and truck market is working there. Without fusion, we will be OK, once we start sequestering CO2 on a large scale.

WE will have to sequestor CO2.

Fusion will be part of the answer, no doubt. We can do it without fusion.

phatj wrote:

joboggi wrote:recent prices

wind 2 cents a KW
Solar 3 cents a KW.

CO2 peaked in 2005.

All in all, the MAJOR move by TESLA to change the automobile and truck market is working there. Without fusion, we will be OK, once we start sequestering CO2 on a large scale.

WE will have to sequestor CO2.

Fusion will be part of the answer, no doubt. We can do it without fusion.

Source on CO2 peaking in 2005? That's contrary to everything I've seen.

As to whether we can remove CO2 from the atmosphere without fusion (and without fossil fuels, obviously), of course we can. But at what scale? I don't know what the power requirements for large scale carbon removal would be but I imagine they would be considerable.

Warszawa wrote:

phatj wrote:

joboggi wrote:recent prices

wind 2 cents a KW
Solar 3 cents a KW.

CO2 peaked in 2005.

All in all, the MAJOR move by TESLA to change the automobile and truck market is working there. Without fusion, we will be OK, once we start sequestering CO2 on a large scale.

WE will have to sequestor CO2.

Fusion will be part of the answer, no doubt. We can do it without fusion.

Source on CO2 peaking in 2005? That's contrary to everything I've seen.

As to whether we can remove CO2 from the atmosphere without fusion (and without fossil fuels, obviously), of course we can. But at what scale? I don't know what the power requirements for large scale carbon removal would be but I imagine they would be considerable.

Are we going to have fusion powered cars? Airplanes?

Also livestock contributes about 20% to total emissions

Oh and Pakistan will run out of water in 2025 so they better hurry

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