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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Tuesday, July 05, 2022

What's the best bet for a fundamentally new energy source from physics?

Antimatter doesn't look particularly promising. There just isn't enough of it, anywhere, as far as we can tell. Controlled nuclear fusion looks like a problem of not being able to have your cake and eat it too -- we can't get commercially viable levels of energy production from nuclear fusion without creating, effectively, a dangerous nuclear bomb. Antigravity won't be practical unless gravitons exist, and we don't know that they do. So, what really exciting fundamentally new sources of energy does physics present to us on the horizon? Anything?

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