Insurance and housing collapse

 A Housing Market “Black Swan” Event In The Making?

“Warning The Insurance Collapse Could Trigger a Housing Market Meltdown”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvWs7LOalw&pp=ygUrd2FybmluZyB0aGUgaW5zdXJhbmNlIGNvbGxhcHMgY291bGQgdHJpZ2dlcg%3D%3D

DOE, NNSA targeted by Musk

No comment. 

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/goodbye-to-several-federal-jobs-these-are-the-jobs-elon-musk-has-said-will-be-cut/ar-AA1uTKPX

Fusion update

 Could scientists have solved the fusion problems?

This article is too technical for most of us but I am hoping someone can make sense out of it. Thank you!

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-upgrade-scientists-may-have-just-solved-fusions-biggest-problem/

"DOGE" impact

 How will the DOGE impact current federal dollars that support the CA “Bullet Train” and BART, both of which are in a deluxe financial mess, and likely deemed by the DOGE to be grossly inefficiently managed?

Project 2025 could mean the end of science at LANL and LLNL

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/what-might-project-2025-mean-for-n-m-non-nuclear-cuts-at-national-labs/article_956aa830-8506-11ef-b30c-6bbad5000761.html

But tucked in the 922 pages of its report, “Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise,” is one recommendation that centers squarely on New Mexico.

The document, penned by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, contemplates pulling funding from any work unrelated to nuclear weapons at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and sister facility Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Basically all non-nuclear science is to be cut. Mello is kind of cynical about the whole thing.

Limitless energy

 A New Zealand-based company just took one step closer to creating a working nuclear fusion reactor.

Is New Zealand more advanced than the US?

This should get the Labs' attention.

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/openstar-technologies-nuclear-fusion-reactor/

The truth about fusion

 This article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist on Fusion and NIF is an interesting read and may interest your readers. - https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-11/ferreting-out-the-truth-about-fusion-interview-with-bob-rosner/