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How LLNL is helping power commercial fusion

 After the spark: How a national lab is helping power commercial fusion

For years, the scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory tried to light a fire in a way that had never been done before. A massive team and hundreds of experiments went into the effort without success, until December 2022.

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https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2026/09/17/national-lab-helping-power-commercial-fusion.html

Chris Wright, the great MAGA sycophant

This is who we work for? Asked on Fox News about gas prices, he gave a very sycophantic answer. No spine! Fast forward to 4'52" and watch.

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XUKNpNvuhNc

DOE keeps forcing coal plants to stay open

 The Trump admin is hell-bent on going backward. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-doe-keeps-forcing-coal-073000002.html

AI and math

 AI can now solve the worlds hardest math problems better than humans.

It just solved the Navier-Stokes problem. It is simply a matter of time before it can better and faster results than most of the STEM workforce. This will have big implications for the NNSA workforce.

Of course the mathematicians are not happy about this.

Scooby's note: The site below isn't reachable. Is it for you too?
https://mathandai.org/

First space elevator?

 

A 6,000-mile cable to the cosmos?

https://nypost.com/2026/08/31/science/first-space-elevator-a-66000-mile-cable-to-the-cosmos-closer-than-ever-before-as-scientists-make-breakthrough/

OpenAI launch

'Welcome to the AGI era': OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra

https://venturebeat.com/technology/welcome-to-the-agi-era-openai-launches-gpt-6-astra