#fusion

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2025-12-19
Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱☮🕊️rod2ik
2025-12-19
2025-12-19

Before all the other fusion drama this week, our Long Now Boston group toured this fusion facility in Massachusetts. It felt like being inside a Tardis, I swear.

We weren't permitted to take photos inside but they took a couple for our group.

It was really informative and it felt like the future.

A big  high ceiling room with a lot of visible HVAC ducting at the ceiling. An orange banner on a huge crane beam in the back says Commonwealth Fusion Systems. 

A lot of orange frame curved support structures are nearby. 

In the back a silver domed half donut with what looks a little like part of an Airstream trailer (but isn't) sits up on the orange platform. It is actually part of the Tokamak under construction in this room.

The center of the room is an oval area with a ton of piping and wiring coming up from the center. A technician sits at a screen in the far left in cleanroom gear. They are reportedly working on the wiring that's needed for this fusion system to run. 

Our tour group in our orange safety vests and hard hats looks at the camera. We are up on the second floor level at a visibility platform overlooking this room. The outside entrance of the building for Commonwealth Fusion Systems. It's a modern looking shiny orange surface and their logo that I think is representing the magnet array that forms the fusion device. 

There are windows on the side and windows at the main entrance area.

It's a bright blue winter cold day and snow is in the foreground. That clear blue winter sky is overheat.
John Sturgeonjohnsturgeon
2025-12-19

Trump's media company merges with a nuclear fusion company.

The only possible play here is the president knows something we don't and wants to get in before the news becomes public.

I suppose that's good news for future energy needs, even if the orange turd becomes even more wealthy.

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩benroyce
2025-12-19

's is in mourning

A gut wrenching tragedy

was a bright star in and , and his loss is painful

And that it apparently happened at the hands of a former classmate is utter madness

😔

nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/mit-

EDIT: NYT article is paywalled and it's too soon for an archive.org link, so the text is copy pasted below

Nuno Loureiro
2025-12-19

@heiseonline Da scheinen entweder die trumpschen Medienleute so lange von sich selbst und anderen abgeschrieben zu haben, dass sie die Story von lukrativer #Kernfusion auf der Erde wirklich glauben. Oder sie wissen, wie man mit der Story #Subventionen vom Staat abgreifen kann.

#Fusion #Fusionsreaktor

Steve Thompson PhDSteveThompson
2025-12-19

Trump Media Wants to Become a Nuclear Fusion Company

gizmodo.com/trump-media-wants-

Trump Media just announced a $6 billion deal with an Alphabet-backed outfit that would create one of the first publicly traded fusion companies.

2025-12-18

deutschlandfunk.de/trump-medie

Da scheinen entweder die trumpschen Medienleute so lange von sich selbst und anderen abgeschrieben zu haben, dass sie die Story von lukrativer #Kernfusion auf der Erde wirklich glauben. Oder sie wissen, wie man mit der Story #Subventionen abgreifen kann.

#Fusion #Fusionsreaktor

2025-12-18

@petergleick for anyone wondering about why #fusion is so hard and is unlikely soon this series on YouTube is excellent, you'll learn a lot

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbh

2025-12-18

This is going to be a long shot, but here goes...

Does anyone know the backstory of the musician ?

This artist is absolutely prolific. Producing full albums of intriguing , often multiple times per month since 2012—two, just this week! The catalog ranges from , , , , and beyond ...and there is zero other history online. Doesn't seem ai-generated either (to my ears), just a true savant...

Anyhow check the catalog! Wow

jazebaqti.bandcamp.com/music

The avatar for the artist Jaze Baqti from their Bandcamp page. The image shows a black and white line drawing of two faces overlapped, with the a watercolor wash for the hair and one closed eye with a small orange splash of color. Very peaceful and serene and beautifully rendered.
2025-12-18

Now we see why Trump wants AI companies to thrive. There's every chance that AI companies are motivated and committed to "funding" this fusion company.

Just one more stop in the AI "investment circle jerk".

nytimes.com/2025/12/18/busines

#corruption #nuclear #energy #fusion #business #finance

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Some tech companies are looking at fusion, a still-experimental technology, as a clean energy source that could help feed the electricity thirst of A.I. data centers.
Alex JimenezAlexJimenez@mas.to
2025-12-18

Lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro has been murdered at the age of 47.

He was convinced that "we are really progressing towards finally having electricity from fusion."

futurism.com/science-energy/mi

#Physics #Fusion #Energy #QuantumComputing

Flipboard News DeskNewsDesk@flipboard.social
2025-12-18

Say what? Trump Media, which runs Truth Social, to merge with nuclear fusion company in $6B deal.

CNBC reports: "There are currently no commercial plants producing electricity using fusion, a futuristic technology that carries the potential to generate abundant energy without the risks associated with nuclear power."

flip.it/UGLjVu

#Trump #News #TruthSocial #Media #USPolitics #Fusion

Freedom Scientific / Visperofreedomscientific
2025-12-18

Our newest software release is here. JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion include smarter AI features, smoother performance, and an experience designed to make accessing information easier and more efficient—whether you’re at home, in school, or at work.

Learn more about what’s new: blog.freedomscientific.com/dow

2025-12-18

#Trump is getting into the #fusion #power business through a $6 billion merger of his social media firm & #Google backed #TAE technologies, just days after industry representatives urged #federal #funding.

The all-stock deal announced Thursday is a bet on the power boom spurred by #ArtificialIntelligence #datacenters & adds to the Trump family's growing roster of ventures very much connected to his presidency from cryptocurrency to mobile services.

#law #emoluments
reuters.com/business/trump-med

Saroumane 38 :verified: ⏚saroumane38@framapiaf.org
2025-12-18

Cher fediverse

Dans le temps, j'utilisais PDFcreator et il était capable de fusionner tous les fichiers de sa file d'attente en 1 seul PDF.
Je trouve que ce logiciel s'est merdifié avec le temps.
Avez-vous des idées d'outils (imprimante virtuelle) permettant la même fonctionnalité ?

merci

#FOSS #PDF #PDFCreator #Windows #opensource #print #merge #fusion #imprimante

Marcin Jakubowskijakmarcin@mstdn.science
2025-12-18

The divertor is a part of a #fusion reactor that has direct contact with the hot plasma, removing heat from it. The power taken up by such a divertor reaches millions of watts per square metre. That is what a spacecraft’s landing module has to withstand while passing through the atmosphere, except it does so only for a short time. The divertor in future reactors is meant to operate continuously, it needs to be protected. This is why automatic anomaly detection result is so important! #science

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