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0 pointsserverholic3y ago0 comments

I'm getting really sick of the "always 20 years away haha" jab.

Look, it's really simple:

1. This is a very hard and expensive problem.

2. Progress IS being made.

It's not clever or cute to diminish progress on this problem.

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e1g3y ago

I wasn't diminishing the achievement but clarifying its place in the context of how far we are from commercialization. The director of LLNL who announced the breakthrough discovery said she expects we are 3-4 decades away from commercializing it.

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