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Maker Hacks: Fusion Energy - Dreaming Of Uncorked Genies
by grarpamp 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

https://www.theepochtimes.com/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-touted-by-white-h… https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-national-laboratory-makes-history-achie… Nuclear Fusion ‘Breakthrough’ Touted by White House, Drawing Praise and Some Skepticism Officials offer different views on pace of commercialization By Nathan Worcester December 13, 2022 Updated: December 14, 2022 It was 1:03 a.m. on Dec. 5 that experimental physicist Alex Zylstra first spotted it: for the first time, a target yielded more energy from a fusion reaction than a laser put into it—though that’s not counting the much greater input energy that was needed to power the laser in the first place. “One of the first things I did was call one of the diagnostic experts to double-check the data,” he said during a Dec. 13 press conference with his colleagues from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Zylstra was running a test with the world’s most energetic laser—Lawrence Livermore’s National Ignition Facility (NIF). By blasting a capsule of hydrogen atoms with that laser until the atoms heat into plasma and combine, he and his colleagues were hoping to achieve nuclear fusion through an approach known as inertial confinement. The other main approach to fusion, magnetic confinement fusion, uses devices such as tokamaks to contain plasmas using powerful magnetic fields. NIF physicist Tammy Ma said that “tears were running down [her] face” when she learned about the result. “I want to emphasize that each experiment we do is building on 60 years of work in this field, and more than a decade on NIF itself,” Zylstra said. His team’s latest work comes as the latest in a recent series of fusion-related achievements from that facility, where fusion research is pursued under the National Nuclear Security Administration’s “Stockpile Stewardship” program, as an alternative to the underground nuclear testing that ended during the early 1990s. The most important of those achievements may have occurred in August 2021, when NIF researchers first briefly achieved ignition according to one set of criteria—namely, when the forces cooling plasma down aren’t strong enough to swamp the forces heating it up. (The Dec. 5 result has also been called “ignition,” as it marks scientific energy breakeven.) “The NIF result in August 2021 changed everything, but this result changes nothing,” said Daniel Jassby, a former research physicist with Princeton University’s plasma laboratory, in a Dec. 13 interview with The Epoch Times. At the Dec. 13 press conference, Lawerence Livermore director Kim Budil said that about 300 megajoules of energy drove the experiment as a whole. The target produced about 3.15 megajoules of energy from 2.05 megajoules of energy, according to a press release. The latest result and press conference coincides with Congress negotiating a last-minute spending bill. Republican senators have called for their colleagues to wait until after their party takes the House of Representatives in January to finalize the package. Jassby did not rule out the possibility that the latest announcement’s timing has something to do with the ongoing spending debate. “That could be—that’s standard political activity,” he said. The reported breakthrough also coincides with increasing tension between the United States and its nuclear-armed geopolitical rival, Russia, in the midst of the Ukraine war. Lawrence Livermore’s Mark Hermann noted how NIF’s fusion research aided the United States’ nuclear deterrent capabilities. The scientists, bureaucrats, and administration officials who spoke on Dec. 13 said the results vindicate decades of earlier researchers who have sought energy breakeven. “They never lost sight of this goal,” said White House office of science and technology policy director Arati Prabhakar. Yet, an apparent discrepancy emerged as to a plausible timeline for commercial fusion power. Budil, of Lawrence Livermore, stated that commercialization could be achieved in “probably decades,” though perhaps not 50 or 60 years. “With concerted effort and investment, a few decades of research on the underlying technologies could put us in a position to build a power plant,” she said. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, by contrast, appealed to President Joe Biden’s “decadal vision to get to a commercial fusion reactor within 10 years.” She said the latest result “shows that it can be done.” When Granholm was asked about that gap by a reporter, Budil jumped in to say that magnetic fusion was more advanced than inertial confinement fusion. However, she did not state that either approach could be realistically commercialized within a decade. “With real investment and real focus, that timescale can move closer,” she said. Praise and Skepticism Some fusion insiders have stressed what they see as the significance of NIF’s contribution. A spokesperson for a major international magnetic fusion collaboration called the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) said the results were “a shot of adrenaline for the global fusion R&D enterprise.” Tokamaks—the technology at the center of ITER’s work—are still “the closest to commercial deployment,” added ITER spokesperson Laban Coblentz. Andrew Holland, the CEO of the Washington-based Fusion Industry Association, said that the announcement on the finding “shows the world that fusion is not science fiction: it will soon be a viable source of energy.” He also called for regulation of the emerging fusion sector, adding that the NIF experiment “will give governments around the world further incentive to support the development of commercial fusion energy.” Yet other experts who spoke with The Epoch Times sounded more skeptical, particularly with regard to the idea of fusion energy reaching commercialization within a decade. “It will take half a century to develop the presently non-existent technologies required for a power reactor based on [inertial confinement fusion], including a practical laser or ion beam,” Jassby said in an email to The Epoch Times. In his view, tokamaks remain “highly speculative.” “Anyone who predicts commercial fusion before 2050 has a far greater imagination than I do,” said Rod Adams, a Navy nuclear veteran who is a partner with the Nucleation Capital venture fund, in a Dec. 13 email to The Epoch Times. Like Jassby, he mentioned what he sees as the odd timing of the latest result, which aligned with a spending debate in Congress. “A final source of skepticism is the skillful orchestration of the announcement. Why did the news ‘leak out’ in time for multiple sources to produce articles even before the widely promoted press conference?” he asked. Steven Krivit, a journalist and noted fusion critic, told The Epoch Times in a Dec. 13 email that the latest NIF data is “irrelevant” from a practical perspective, though not necessarily to scientists. He questioned the definitions used to claim the reaction exceeded breakeven, noting that the lasers used to carry out the experiments require hundreds of megajoules of energy. In a follow-up message to The Epoch Times, Adams said the experimental net energy production amounted to “sound and fury producing dozens of articles about a breakthrough.”

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Re: Cryptocurrency: WarOnCash Proves To Billions That Privacy Crypto Must Be Adopted, Kill CBDC's
by grarpamp 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Government and its Global Monopoly on Violence and Money *is* the ONLY Terrorist, not Free Human Beings. CBDC's must be fought against. We Are About To Witness A Major Move Toward A Cashless Society by Michael Snyder http://endoftheamericandream.com/we-are-about-to-witness-a-major-move-towar… https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/12/07/anti-mon… https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/html/index.en.html The war on cash has just gone to an entirely new level. When I heard that the European Union was planning to completely ban all cash transactions above 10,000 euros, I had a hard time believing it. There are so many wild rumors flying around on the Internet these days, and so I wasn’t going to write about this unless I could confirm it. Unfortunately, this particular rumor is quite real. Under the pretext of fighting “money laundering and terrorist financing”, the European Union will be entirely outlawing all cash payments greater than 10,000 euros. The following comes from the official website of the Council of the European Union… By limiting large cash payments, the EU will make it harder for criminals to launder dirty money. An EU-wide maximum limit of €10.000 is set for cash payments. Member states will have the flexibility to impose a lower maximum limit if they wish. So this means that in some countries the upper limit could potentially be a lot lower than 10,000 euros. But instead of framing it as a major move toward a cashless society, the EU is trying to claim that this is all about fighting terrorists. The following is what Zbyněk Stanjura, the Minister for Finance in the Czech Republic, has said about this upcoming change… Terrorists and those who finance them are not welcome in Europe. In order to launder dirty money, criminal individuals and organisations had to look for loopholes in our existing rules which are already quite strict. But our intention is to close these loopholes further, and to apply even stricter rules in all EU member states. Large cash payments beyond €10.000 will become impossible. Trying to stay anonymous when buying or selling crypto-assets will become much more difficult. Hiding behind multiple layers of ownership of companies won’t work any more. It will even become difficult to launder dirty money via jewellers or goldsmiths. Meanwhile, the European Central Bank has been actively considering the possibility of introducing a “digital euro”. The following comes from the official website of the European Central Bank… We are working with the national central banks of the euro area to investigate whether to introduce a digital euro. It would be a central bank digital currency, an electronic equivalent to cash. And it would complement banknotes and coins, giving people an additional choice about how to pay. Well isn’t that convenient? As they take cash away from the general population, it turns out that they have already been working on the replacement. Incredibly, the ECB even has the gall to claim that this new digital currency will be “like cash”… A digital euro would offer an electronic means of payment that anyone could use in the euro area. It would be secure and user-friendly, like cash is today. As central bank money issued by the ECB, it would be different from “private money”, but you could also use a card or a phone app to pay with digital euro. Yes, you will be able to spend it just like you can spend cash. But unlike cash, a digital euro will allow authorities to track whatever you buy and sell with it. Won’t that be wonderful? By the way, the Federal Reserve is currently working on a digital currency as well. And this is all happening as the private cryptocurrency industry is imploding all around us. Many had believed that decentralized cryptocurrencies would be the future of commerce, but global central banks were never going to allow that to happen. Instead, it appears that they intend to force all of us on to a cashless grid in which everyone uses digital currencies that are issued by them. Needless to say, a lot of people out there are quite wary of any moves toward a cashless society because they believe that it is part of the “end times” scenario described in the Bible. According to one recent survey, approximately 39 percent of all Americans are convinced that we are living in the “end times” right now… Nearly two in five Americans, including half of self-identified Christians and a quarter of the religiously unaffiliated, agree “we are living in the End Times,” a new study has found. That’s about 39% of Americans who believe we are living in the End Times, according to Pew Research, highlighted by Lifeway Research. Other surveys have come up with similar results. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of us, because global events have definitely started to spin out of control in recent years. At this point, even secular websites are publishing articles about the surging popularity of “apocalyptic scenarios”… There’s no denying that the apocalypse is currently having a moment, culturally and politically. It could be driven partly by the pandemic and fears of climate change. Those are actual, frightening apocalyptic scourges. Russia’s war has also set off alarm bells for certain evangelicals, as there was a Cold War tradition of identifying the country, variably, with Gog or Magog. Seeing Slate discuss such things made me chuckle. But this is where we are. Just about every day, more crazy things take place that have literally never happened before. For example, I came across the following story earlier today… For past 12 months, scientists have been studying a 50-second burst of energy from over a billion light-years away that could change how we understand how stars live and die. In December 2021, a massive blast of energy hit the Earth’s atmosphere. Its source was a gamma-ray burst – one of the most powerful explosions in the universe – but not just any gamma ray burst. One scientist said at the time that the event – named GRB 211211A – “looks unlike anything else we have seen before”. As time rolls along, things are only going to get even more weird. If you have been waiting for life to “return to normal”, you can stop right now. It simply is not going to happen, and I believe that global events will accelerate even more during the early stages of 2023. It is finally here! Michael’s new book entitled “End Times” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.

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Cryptocurrency: For When Interventionism Fails
by grarpamp 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Latin America's Slow Descent Into Interventionism Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The latest estimates from consensus for the main Latin American economies show a continent facing a lost decade. The region GDP growth has been downgraded yet again to a modest 1.1% for 2023, with rising inflation and weakening gross fixed investment. Considering that the region was already recovering at a slower pace than other emerging markets, the outlook is exceedingly worrying. The poor growth and high inflation expectations are even worse when we consider that consensus estimates still consider a tailwind coming from rising commodity prices and more exports due to the China re-opening. How can a region with such high potential as Latin America be condemned to stagflation? The answer is simple. The rise of populist governments in Colombia, Chile and Brazil have increased the concerns about investor security, property rights and monetary discipline. Argentina is expected to post a modest 0.2% GDP growth in 2023 with 95% inflation and a debt to GDP of 72%. Years of monetary and fiscal excess have destroyed the purchasing power of the local currency and dilapidated the prospect of real growth. In Argentina, poverty has escalated to 36.5% of the population and the government policies double down on interventionism, price controls and higher taxes with the expected negative result. Despite the tailwind of high demand for soja and cereals globally, Argentina dives deeper into Venezuela territory, where consensus expects another year of weak 3% bounce after destroying 80% of the output in a decade, with enormous inflation, 132%. The problem? The new governments in Chile and Colombia are announcing policies that resemble those of the “Peronist left” in Argentina and the Fernandez government in Argentina is looking more like Maduro’s Venezuela each day. Chile is expected to post no growth in 2023 despite an estimated higher copper price, and 15% inflation. Colombia, which showed the strongest recovery from the covid-19 crisis until 2022, in which consensus expects a 7% growth, is feared to stop on its tracks and deliver a poor 1.6% GDP growth with elevated inflation, close to 7%. In Brazil, consensus expects a poor 0.9% growth with 5% inflation. It does not look as bad as Argentina, but the first major announcement of newly elected president Lula has already triggered all alarm bells. Lula stated that he wanted to change the constitution to lift the spending limit and increase government spending even more. The Brazil currency and 10-year bond reacted aggressively to this risk because everyone can remember that Lula’s “economic miracle” a decade ago came from massively high oil prices and, when the commodity bonanza ended, his successor Rousseff sent the country to a deep crisis where spending soared and growth stagnated. You may say that the rise of populism in Latin America is the consequence of the failed classic liberal policies implemented before, but that would be a grave mistake. Most of these countries have not seen open and liberal economies but crony states. Statism failed and more statism fails even faster. Global investors see the enormous potential of Latin America. However, when governments start to impose interventionist policies, put at risk property rights with expropriation threats and at the same time massively increase monetary imbalances printing currencies with no real global and diminishing local demand, the combination is destructive. Why do citizens vote for politicians that implement confiscatory and extractive policies? In many economic debates in Latin American media one can hear the word “redistribution” repeated incessantly. Many believe that wealth is like a pied that can be cut and distributed at will, but ignore that wealth is either created or destroyed, it does not stay flat. Interventionist policies destroy wealth in three ways: First, attacking independent institutions and introducing political random decisions in legal and investor security which erodes growth potential, investment, and employment. Second, by increasing taxes on the productive sector to pay for massive subsidies paid in a constantly depreciated currency, which creates a double negative of lower growth, weaker local businesses and a dependent subclass that rarely emerges. The productive sector ends forced to operate in the underground economy to avoid confiscatory taxes. Third, interventionism destroys the purchasing power of the local currency by breaking all the rules of prudent monetary policy and financing an ever-increasing government size printing a constantly devalued currency. The combination of these three factors means poverty and stagnation. Why do interventionist governments do this when they know -and they do- it does not work? Monetary destruction is the easiest and most effective way of nationalization of an economy. Printing currency is a form of expropriation of wealth, as money creation is never neutral, it benefits the government and hurts real wages and savers. Why would “populist” governments impose policies that perpetuate poverty and hurt the people? Interventionism does not aim to increase prosperity but take full control of a nation. The three mentioned policies are aimed at grasping full control of a country and make the population dependent, not deliver growth and improve social conditions. Extractive and confiscatory policies are not social measures, they are profoundly anti-social. The worst is that once implemented, it becomes difficult to unwind. We should learn the lesson everywhere because it is coming to your country soon.

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I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting
by professor rat 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

. . . and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-ot… Reposts not recycled rubbish from LaLa Land

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Cryptocurrency: Technical Solutions to Maxi's Pending Death of BTC
by professor rat 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

>> strong cryptographic equivalent levels of privacy Trade your AVAX for Monero. Frankly, the demand for privacy is even lower than the demand for anarchy. >> - reduce storage needs to per-account state instead of growing per-tx terabytes forever Create your own Avalanche subnet? >> - bump txrate to service a couple billion people a few times a month or so Lightning add-on claims this - but with AVAX its built in by design. >> - interoperate with expected DEX protocols AVAX interoperates already with FEX protocols ( Fully Encrypted Exchanges ) >> - quantum safe All crypto is quantum safe already since by the time old PKI using primes is cracked we will all be on a quantum PKI. So technically sound solutions exist to every real or imagined cryptoanarchist problem existent. Black swans excepted. Call us when you found one of them. I remain confident Big Dog has one more ATH. What happens then is a second-order issue.

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Cryptocurrency: Panicked Karen's Launch Bills To Kill Crypto, Fight Back !!!
by grarpamp 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc Crypto - No Regulators Freedom Matters. For the first time in 110 years of Global BankPolGov tyranny and slavery... Monetary Sovereignty, Separation of Money From State, Freedom itself, is within your grasp. PolBankGov are panicking at their impending loss of power. Their arguments are losing. Finish them off. Fight Back ! https://archive.org/details/TheCreatureFromJekyllIslandByG.EdwardGriffin https://libertarianinstitute.org/dont-tread-on-anyone/the-most-dangerous-su… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y460qLK0-ZA https://www.libertarianism.org/media/classics-liberty/lysander-spooner-no-t… https://mises.org/library/no-treason-no-1 https://fee.org/resources/economics-in-one-lesson/

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GRARPAMPS is retailing disinformation on this list as bad as Karl and Juan
by professor rat 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

While his garbage scow takes regular dumps here this is from one of his latest https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1602042530845057027?ref_src=twsr… TL/DR a link to a story about Au was soon exposed as a fraud by people living in Au. FUCK OFF and DIE Gramps. You're as bad as Garofalo and Semich.

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Cryptocurrency: Bankster Warren Karen's Launch Bill To Kill Wallets Miners All, Fight Back!!!
by grarpamp 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

The ridiculous bullshit FUD Lies and "Law" they keep trotting out, absolutely anything to trick you into supporting their false Authority instead you becoming Free. The Internet is rising to fight them, join the fight, become Freedom. https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/the-digital-asset-anti-money-laundering-act-is-… https://decrypt.co/117221/senator-warren-crypto-bill-kyc-self-custody-walle… https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/elizabeth-warren-crypt… https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/14/elizabeth-warren-crypto-reg… https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-sen-elizabeth-warren-says-crypto-will-rui… https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/elizabeth-warren-targets-crypto-money-… https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2022/11/23/regulate_crypto_or_itll_take_d… https://www.theblock.co/post/194941/warren-marshall-introduce-bill-to-tight… https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/DAAML%20Act%20of%202022.pdf https://www.durbin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_fidelity_investments_… https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/recommendations/March%202021…

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please ban the fucking asshole gmkarl at gmail.com
by professor rat 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

If by ' ban ' you mean kill there is already a deadpool on him. Anyone not a Nocoiner nitwit here is free to contribute. Top up the one for Gramps while you're there. We have a right to destroy those who trespass against us, bear false witness against us and who would bury us. And in the case of Semich, Assmange and the Argentine Nazi we have a right to torture them extensively for a few weeks first. All work and no play makes anarchism a dull toy.

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Cryptocurrency: Politicians Forcing People To Adopt Privacy-Enabled P2P, WarOnCrypto
by grarpamp 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Adopt P2P privacy-enabled crypto asap to escape and ruin PolGovBank's plans to enforce their nightmare 1984 over you. "I think the only thing being crippled is this crook and her banks wallets. -- Internet" https://i.redd.it/ls7s3k43tw5a1.png Totalitarian Mandates For You Sen. Warren (Democrat who is employed by Banks) just introduced an anti-crypto bill that seeks to force KYC on nodes, wallets and validators. This is insane. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/elizabeth-warren-crypt… https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/14/elizabeth-warren-crypto-reg… https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-sen-elizabeth-warren-says-crypto-will-rui… https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/elizabeth-warren-targets-crypto-money-… https://www.durbin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_fidelity_investments_… https://www.coincenter.org/the-digital-asset-anti-money-laundering-act-is-a… https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/14/business/elizabeth-warren-bipartisan-cry… https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/DAAML%20Act%20of%202022.pdf https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/recommendations/March%202021… Crypto NEEDS NO REGULATORS, and will ACCEPT NO REGULATORS, you dumb cunts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc Crypto - No Regulators Mass SpyVeillance, Beyond Stasi Recordkeeping https://dailyhodl.com/2022/12/14/coinbase-releases-new-transparency-report-… https://btc-pulse.com/australia-introduces-a-social-credit-system-cardano-f… https://www.crypto-news-flash.com/breaking-australian-citizens-can-only-acc… https://cryptotale.org/australia-to-regulate-crypto-custody-and-licensing-i… https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/12/14/australia-moves-to-tighten-safet… The Australian government has introduced a social credit system based on unique digital IDs before its citizens can access the web or perform any digital-related transactions. According to the new law, citizens must have 100 points of ID before using social media. The Authorities will have access to residents’ accounts, including their private messages.

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