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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: New fusion power system test creates 300,000 degrees C plasma
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 13:44:01 +1100
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On 1/12/2024 6:33 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:05:11 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/30/24 18:10, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:47:25 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/30/24 03:23, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:30:22 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
>>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/29/24 23:03, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>>>>> Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 11/29/24 21:04, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

<snip>

>>> 560 watts for 100 years is about 2e12 joules. That gets it up to 55
>>> billion K, if my math is right.
>>>
>>> (US billions)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
>> returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
>>
>> Jeroen Belleman (Wearing his Twain coat)
> 
> It's like electronic design. Splatter your brain all over the solution
> space and invent things.

John Larkin hasn't invented anything - based on his patent count - and 
it shows.

The process doesn't involve splattering your brain across the solution 
space but rather tracking down initially implausible trains of thought.

You are exploring the solution space, as opposed to sampling it at random.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney