Hegseth has got to stop leaking his chats.
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Is he mad that young adults can stay on their parents' health plan until age 26?
It's actually a banana for scale, but photoshopped to look like a B17.
Not real.
And in this climate, I find this flavor of satire more exhausting than funny.
My response to Donald's taxes tariffs and his plans for the economy. I encourage you to do the same.
The winning move is for a significant portion of the population to cut as much discretionary spending as possible. We will need the savings for the recession anyway.
Granted, ceasing discretionary spending at a significant fraction is likely to trigger/deepen a recession.
The other benefit I can think of is keeping the fissile materials always sub critical. You don't have to worry about a meltdown if the reaction is not self-sustaining. It's an odd marrying of technologies, but I think people are being too dismissive.
Although, I wonder if the true purpose of such a device would be high output breeding of fuel for weapons use.
- Roll CD on edge
- Make terrible pun about it being a roller coaster
It is April 1st, just in case anyone else needs a reminder.
I meant commenters on youtube. I should have specified.
The issue is that it's a waste of resources. A dam is harnessing energy from the rainfall over hundreds to thousands of square miles of land area. So the resources required to build it, even though large, are very efficiently used over decades of use.
A tiny system uses orders of magnitude less materials but harvests many orders of magnitude less power. A tiny system probably isn't going to ever generate more energy than it took to manufacture.
Systems like this are at best a novelty. We need to all be wary of greenwashed scams, and this is one of them.