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news.slashdot.org: A Quarter of All Tweets About Climate Crisis Produced By Bots (theguardian.com)

[looks around self suspiciously]

news.slashdot.org: JP Morgan Economists Warn of 'Catastrophic' Climate Change (bbc.com)

To mitigate climate change net carbon emissions need to be cut to zero by 2050. To do this, there needed to be a global tax on carbon, the report authors said.

Yikes! OTOH:

https://hardware.slashdot.org: Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech (newatlas.com)

The results of decades of research by Emeritus Professor Heinrich Hora, HB11's approach to fusion does away with rare, radioactive and difficult fuels like tritium altogether -- as well as those incredibly high temperatures. Instead, it uses plentiful hydrogen and boron B-11, employing the precise application of some very special lasers to start the fusion reaction. Here's how HB11 describes its "deceptively simple" approach: the design is "a largely empty metal sphere, where a modestly sized HB11 fuel pellet is held in the center, with apertures on different sides for the two lasers. One laser establishes the magnetic containment field for the plasma and the second laser triggers the 'avalanche' fusion chain reaction. The alpha particles generated by the reaction would create an electrical flow that can be channeled almost directly into an existing power grid with no need for a heat exchanger or steam turbine generator."