It looks like one of the main problems with fusion are the materials.

Long-term research and design strategies for fusion energy materials

the materials required for commercially viable fusion power plants do not exist today. […] The challenge of fusion materials is compounded by the fact that design targets are not precisely defined and are rapidly evolving and by a lack of representative testing facilities.

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I think it’s very important to share these kind of thoughts, to protect ourselves and others. So thank you for your remark!

It didn’t cross my mind to be honnest. Their about page didn’t give that impression. Also, I looked up a bit Spencer Scott and I found some decent articles. For example: Solarpunk: Refuturing our Imagination for an Ecological Transformation.

Personnaly, I wanted to find specifics about their decission-making process. I didn’t manage to really. I suppose if they had a model of horizontal organizing, they would be talking about it? In the same time it looked like a decent enough project, so it seemed like worth posting.

On second thought, does this project seem to you like it could be a cult?

Even if the examples you provided are all -to my understanding- hypotheticals, I appreciate you didn’t talk about money

Ok, ok thank you for your input. I will definately check this channel then!

It crossed my mind (after writting the comment), but how can you be sure of that? I mean, is it an assumption or you could share a link to back this claim?

By 2040, each €1 of public funding for wind generates €7 in annual economic returns,

So the title is a lie, not a fact. It’s an estimation, coming from those who want the funding to increase. Trinomics does also lobbying in the EU. It’s easy to assume that green lobbying is fine because it’s for a good purpose, but it’s worth keeping in mind that lobbying’s purpose is about getting more money, no matter the argument used. So, the reality in the EU about wind turbines is that they are deployed even in Natura 2000 areas (protected biodiversity hotspots), and that’s because companies want to sell more turbines, to make more money.

Please, don’t get me wrong, I’m all in for wind turbines, but only after proper assesments. This is why I strongly believe that we need to shift away from narratives and arguments related to profit, and focus on arguments centered around the intersections of environment, biodiversity, climate etc.

I can’t manage to watch past his smiling midleage face announcing about being fired from a botanical garden for:

sleazing on young women [0:18]

A reminder that this article was from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and that Israeli universities not only have an exceptionally close relationship with the Israeli military and arms industry, but also play a key role in planning, implementing and justifying Israel’s regime of occupation and apartheid.

Some specifics about the the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

• Mount Scopus campus is partly built on illegally occupied land in East Jerusalem.
• Host the IDF’s Havatzalot academic elite program which is designed to train future intelligence officers.
• Hosts the highly secretive Talpiot military program, combining military training with studies in math, physics and computer science.
• Has publicly promoted its provision of ‘diverse logistics equipment to several military units’ since the invasion of Gaza began.
• Michael Federmann, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Elbit and biggest owner, is also a member of the Board of Governors of both the Weizman Institute and the Hebrew University

source: https://academicsforpalestine.dk/academic-boycott/complicit-israeli-universities/

See also: 4 COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE ACADEMIC BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL

And a relevant article from Carbon Brief:

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’

Renewable energy has overtaken coal to become the world’s largest source of electricity in 2025, according to thinktank Ember.

That sounds like an excellent idea, so on a similar note I could suggest to go to shops that sell clothes for kitchen professionals. I have owned plenty of those, mainly trousers. They are super comfy and they kinda last forever.

I did a little bit of digging on this and if it looks like sand batteries are a subcategory of thermal batteries, which in their turn are part of what is called thermal energy storage . Wiki mentioned something that I found fascinating and that I totally didn’t know:

Thermal batteries are very common, and include such familiar items as a hot water bottle. Early examples of thermal batteries include stone and mud cooking stoves, rocks placed in fires, and kilns.

Could you share the link of this review you are talking about? I ask this because it seems to me it could easily be another study. For example, in the references there are over 90 of those.

Apparently this paper came out a few years ago

Not too sure which paper you are refering to. The one linked in this article was published last week.

Discovery of the closest free-living relative of the domesticated ‘magic mushroom’ Psilocybe cubensis in Africa

Dammit, I wonder why this is, I mean it works for me. Actually I archived it bc I can’t access the original source.

Anyways, the article can be found here: https://www.ftm.eu/articles/next-food-crisis-big-five-speculation I hope this works for you

For the first part, I suppose the answer is that the products made from mycelium (like insulations, packaging, furniture etc) they are dried beforehand, and the fungus dies. If it is not dried well, you get mushrooms. So, in a giy (grow it yourself) project, if the fungus used is an edible one, the failed projects gives you lunch. This is a process: Flower Pot from Mycelium and Cardboard

For the second part, about the rats, I really don’t know but I will keep an eye out for this topic.

Thank you so much for saying that :)

I tend to agree with several things you talk about, but I have the impression we see things differently. For example, on one hand I agree with you when you say that we cannot let the Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes/Owners to just produce even a single new piece of plastic, but on the other hand for me the root of the problem is that the extraction of oil worldwide is still expanding instead of phasing out. Meaning that, as long as this is the case, more and more plastic will be produced.

Apart from that, of course bacteria eating plastics sound like a great option, but they are not the only way to get rid of plastics. Some alternatives would be fungi that “eat” plastic, or mycelium that replace plastics. Here are some relevant articles.

I think it’s important to clarify that radiosynthesis is just an unproven theory for now, for some fungi. For this reason, I don’t understand how you can jump into conclusions about plants, since we don’t even know if it is the case for these specific fungi.