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Helium is an essential material for research and medical equipment, but it’s nonrenewable and difficult to recycle (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

/s? I feel like that tech has been "20 years away" for like 50 years now...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This graph shows projections for how long it was predicted to take to develop fusion power depending on the funding. Graph showing how long it should take to develop fusion power. There are five lines, "maximum effective effort" ending in 1990, "accelerated" in 1993, "aggressive" in 1998, "moderate" in 2005, and "fusion never" which never ends. The line showing actual funding is below "fusion never".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So if a billionaire actually decided to fund it, we might have it? It appears that the actual amount of funding is below the "fusion never" line.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

They'd have to throw in like 10 billion a year for over a decade, so we probably need a couple of the worlds richest billionaires

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Checks out.