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A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot

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Eric Lander is a geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician.

He led the International Human Genome Project and is founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard .

Lander says commercial fusion energy is finally within reach.

Pacific Fusion says it won’t deliver a working commercial fusion plant until the 2030s .

Pacific Fusion aims to get net-positive energy within 150 nanoseconds.

The energy of the team is so high it’s like they’ve been pulsed themselves.

Even in the rosiest scenario, there will be thousands of days before we know whether Pacific Fusion can fulfill the promise.

The act of reasoning, which involves well-defined steps, seems to be something that humans or machines can engage in.

Thought is another matter. Scientists haven't come up with great explanations for how thoughts occur in our own brains.

Maybe one day a truly conscious computer might convince me otherwise..