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The World's Biggest Fusion Reactor Just Hit A Milestone Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, The final components of ITER's central solenoid magnet -- a 59-foot, 3,000-tonne superconducting system 15 years in the making -- have arrived in France, clearing a major path toward first plasma. ITER will never supply electricity to the grid; it exists purely as a research tool, and at €22 billion and counting, it's still years from achieving its primary milestone. A wave of well-funded private fusion startups is on track to hit the same technical benchmarks as ITER...

For more than two centuries, the doomsday crowd has claimed that capital development will create mass unemployment. And for two centuries, they have been wrong. The same goes for artificial intelligence.

The Pentagon has told Congress that it needs $80 billion to pay for the Iran war and other non-war-related costs, The Wall Street Journal has reported. The Pentagon had previously claimed that the war cost $29 billion as of mid-May, a number that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, as an analysis from Stephen Semler of […]