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Paul Drake's avatar

I enjoy these newsletters and appreciate the fusion white paper. Having spent four decades in or near fusion research, it seems to me that there is a very substantial omission from that paper. DT Fusion systems that are successful but not yet able to provide economically competitive power are prodigious neutron sources. Among other options, they can breed thorium into U235, which can be used to power fission reactors. One moderately sized fusion system could fuel 25 of those reactors. This would be a natural intermediate step toward "pure fusion". The pure dreamers seem uninterested, however.

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Dmitrii Zelenskii's avatar

I used ElevenLabs. Well... tried to. Their interface is much worse than play.ht or Speechify, and voice selection is poorer.

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