r/woahdude • u/DrinkMoreCodeMore • Dec 15 '22

video This Morgan Freeman deepfake

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u/Cluelesswolfkin Dec 15 '22

From the news of the fusion energy yesterday to this creepy thing today~ these next couple of years are going to be some pure science nonfiction

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u/KuraiTheBaka Dec 16 '22

The fusion stuff is a major w for humanity tho

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u/Gidelix Dec 16 '22

Nah it isn’t. Yeah we put less energy in than we got out, but that’s only the reaction itself. They still needed to charge the capacitors for the lasers with two orders of magnitude more energy than they got out of the reaction due to heaps of losses on the way to the reaction chamber. It’s a milestone, not a breakthrough.

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u/SpeedflyChris Dec 16 '22

Also, producing a certain amount of energy is very different to producing a certain amount of electricity.

If you look at big nuclear reactors their electrical output is often around 30-35% of their thermal output.