Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Why do the use the word "distrust". Just say revolutionize, change, impact and so on. The disrupt terminology never made any sense as it has negative connotation. I get the feeling it is some manager or business term that someone made up or was something the used so some business person could understand how technology changes things. Technology has been changing things for that last 10000 years for people, so why call it disrupt now?
People have been working for years to make various types hydrogen energy devices. The news week article is also a bit odd. "As of the end of October 2021, hydrogen fuel cell power generators produced about 260 megawatts of electricity capacity across the United States. By comparison, the average wind turbine produced about 2.75 megawatts in 2020." What? I think this is the other way around.
https://www.newsweek.com/hydrogen-fuel-breakthrough-aluminum-reaction-1738643
Also just from reading this I have real doubts you could scale this approach up, what is the cost since it needs Gallium. In short this could be something important but right now it is "not set to disrupt" the energy market. In fact the odds are low that this will work out, but hey make a bold and inaccurate claim in your headline and it will get clicks. Did the original poster read the article? Again I have a policy that you cannot link to a twitter, news story, and some of MSM claiming something if you only read the title. The titles are not accurate you have to read the article first.
Now presumably the poster was a scientist, if this person could fall for this trap just imagine how many non-scientists are reading false stuff in MSM.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/cern-may-idle-worlds-largest-particle-collider-europes-energy-crisis-worsens
In light of the current energy crises facing California and the US maybe we should shut down LLNL?
There is no "energy crisis" facing the US. California, yes, and it is self-inflicted.