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y trying to help. That's usually good enough not to make somebody drive hundreds of miles to your house. But to be fair, when people are crazy, there's nothing you can do, right? Basically nothing you can do. So that's just a horrible little story. There's a story that I'm having a little bit of trouble believing. Oh, I'm going to go further. I'm going to say I don't believe this is true. I think…

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I immediately went over to Google and I said to myself, have I been in a coma? Because I followed the news on fusion and I didn't think we were that close. I thought we'd done some demos that show that, you know, for a brief time it can create more energy than it uses, but I didn't think we were anywhere near a practical application where you could just approve it and build it. So given that if you do a Google search it makes no indication that fusion is near ready, do you think they would announce something and Google doesn't even know the technology is there? I'm going to say this is fake news. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say I think maybe they either wrote down fusion when they meant fission or something. Yeah, fusion has happened experimentally. That's what I know. All right, so I think that's fake news.

But if it's not, I saw one post in the comments from Idea Man who said superconductors have been improving a lot and that fusion depends on superconductors. It seems like one of the key components and MIT has been d

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esigning fusion plants based on the latest superconductors and it might actually be practical. Or it might be that they got so close to practical they can't tell for sure if it works until they start building it. I don't know. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos and Trump and Elon Musk had dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Now we don't know what happened at that dinner, but it's been confirmed that it happened. Musk said…

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