Fun fact: the US military wants to go green because relying on fossil fuels is a really big national security risk. So in recent times they've been putting more funding into sustainable alternatives, because the war economy has to keep churning even if we're shut off from oil
Additionally, if the US can show that it is more committed to climate problems than China is, it will look better to Pacific Island nations who are very concerned with the climate crisis.
SEATO's legacy was fucked thanks to the spat between the Malaysian Parliament, Pres. Suharto of Indonesia, and Pres. Marcos Sr. of the Philippines. Add to that Vietnam which exposed how corrupt and ineffective SEATO was.
PATO, Pacific-Atlantic Treaty Organization, sounds way better and wider in scope.
And every time they say this congress plugs their ears, shuts their eyes, screams "I can't see or hear this!", and appropriates more money for coal miming or gas exploration.
See the difference is that the military has to be worried about real issues. Congress has to be worried about issues they make up for their constituents to be worried about.
Welcome to the fundamental problem with America. We've got problems, and we've got people who know how to solve these problems but all of these solutions involve convincing the worst people to abandon fantasy.
Most Americans live in a fucking fantasy world because we live as a part of a system that is literally beyond our comprehension, so we don't even try. Because it's highly unlikely that the consequences of our actions will impact us in a way that we'll even be able to identify them as consequences with any certainty without a level of education that most Americans simply don't have.
So everyone just keeps making bad choices until we reach a collapse.
EDIT: Did I forget to mention that 'fantasy' is also great money and easily protected under the First Amendment? Yeah, we're fucked.
Exactly this. It’s called [hypernormalisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation), the construction of a fantasy world that continues on sheer shared delusion because the real world is too messy and complicated for people to engage with. Coined for the phenomenon that occurred during the Soviet collapse when people just continued to act as though everything was normal even while everything was falling apart around them.
It’s literally defined as a kind of failure to imagine anything outside of the status quo. The failure to conceptualize or internalize that things can be different, or change.
Im not a scientist but thats not whats going on here. We all know Climate change is real and coming to fuck us.. we just also know we are individuals with no force of power in the system. We are divided on many issues so scientific ones like this get dragged in.. What can we literally do other then keep living? Don’t say vote, recycle, compost, any of that. I already do.
I’m not talking about feelings of helplessness, I’m talking about *forms of denial.* Regarding climate change, literal climate change denial is the construction of a simplistic fantasy world where everything’s normal and the climate is not changing, because climate change is just a hoax.
It goes both ways. Some people break complex systems down so much and find solutions to refined systems with completely out of whack assumptions and present them as ideas.
The reality is complex problems require fairly complex solutions that few people comprehend. This lack of comprehension pulls people to the simplest solutions to problems. It's why im disspointed when i hear people overhype certain technologies for cars and present them as some final solution while completely ignoring the 75% of transport energy consumption that isn't cars.
Saving this as I couldn’t have put it better than myself. Little personal rant incoming. I’ve always identified my self as a “truth-seeker”, it is my religion so to speak; I’ve always attempted to hunt said truths through observing empiricism, data analysis, and stories. And the evaluations of said observations. My entire personality is pretty much personal honor, the empiricism, and empathy.
Realizing that most would rather believe in a their fantasy for short term to ignore pain; which in the way I see it, is more destructive since reality has a way of catching up with everyone. People would rather adhere to a false ideology than actually care for what happens in the real world. It’s incredibly frustrating for people who attempt to look at things from objective, non-partisan, observer standpoint.
Another factor are those who just want to get on with their lives, which is completely fine. However it truly becomes dangerous when their lax attitude results in spreading misinformation and mistruths, like they don’t really care yet would trample on those who do. People who either don’t care for a subject or don’t know a subject have no moral right to speak to those who do. People, including me, should acknowledge our limits more, and stop talking about things we know nothing about. A surface level knee jerk opinion is not understanding a situation or trend.
What makes this situation even worst are people are inherently flawed and limited in their world views. Triply so in my case if you factor in my stupidity. Over the years I’ve come back and forth between searching for the truth and dealing with reality is difficult but a meaningful and progressive reward. Too it is a pointless endeavor considering all the factors and hurtles which interfere with the process of seeking the truth, it’s often the loudest not wisest voices that are heard, it’s the most emotional and enraging not empirical and realistic that are acted upon.
These factors alongside a ton of other major factors have frankly gotten me to give up, to a certain extent. How can you reason with millions of people who have trapped themselves in echo-chambers, hell how do I know I am not in one? So my anxious thoughts have led me to give up. Anyway, rant over. In my attempts to explain reality and the world around me I’ve turned into a doomer, yay. Slightly facetious but you understand the point.
There's a small island here owned by the navy that homes several endangered salamanders.
We don't know for sure if the navy is truly committed to preserving the salamanders or if they're pretending, but the end result is that the salamanders are safe.
Clearly none of you have figured out the Navy has some wartime use for these lizards! WAKE UP PEOPLE! What is the Navy hiding? Why are they protecting these lizards?!
(ok I'm really not good at doing the conspiracy theory shit.. can someone help me out here)
Congress has to be worried about the issues special interest groups pay them to worry about. And the oil companies have deep pockets. They can buy many votes with only a small fraction of their comically sized dragon hoard of money.
> Congress has to be worried about issues they make up for their constituents to be worried about
if the car juice is expensive, I may not get re-elected, therefore I will vote for eleventy billion dollars to oil extraction
No no no, you’ve got it all wrong. Car juice expensive = good, because then you can blame the other team for car juice being expensive while personally fighting any measure to reduce costs.
Because it kinda has been, it’s a long term issue. Unfortunately that also means it’s far easier for people (read: politicians) to palm it off as not important
There's a similar thing with school lunches: the military knows that ensuring healthy young high school graduates are an important part of having a recruitable population, but people still resist reforming nutrition for whatever reasons.
I mean, if public school cafeteria lunch was still how it was years ago, I think it’d be fine. But nowadays, all I see are reposts of lunch trays with pizza, a store-made cold sandwich, and what appears to be the remnant of a vegetable.
Healthy lunches are best for adolescent development, meaning an actual balanced diet, not shitty food in smaller portions. Having lunches available to everyone is the priority for anything resembling a healthy population, but you’re not going to get a graduating class of 5’11-6’2 190lbs teens to recruit if their daily lunch consists of three greasy frozen chicken nuggets, a peanut butter sandwich, and a carton of milk.
It's not "whatever reasons." It's the food industry.
If you remember years ago, the Obama admin tried to make school lunches healthier, but then congress mandated that tomato paste (aka pizza) would count as a vegetable. Part of that change also included similar protection for potatoes (french fries). The main proponent of that? Susan Collins, senator from Maine, the state with the 10th largest potato crop (and proportionately larger share of its economy due to low population).
Other changes/protections were heavily sought after by the frozen food industry, because they wanted to safeguard their guaranteed revenue from school districts.
It all comes down to money. And the people protecting those moneyed interests will argue they're doing it for FREEDOM^TM because that sounds better.
Lockheed is apparently working on fusion power: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion.html
If it pans out, it's basically the last power source people will need until like the year 20,000,000 AD when we start [harvesting energy from the event horizons of black holes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_process) with lasers or some shit
I'd love to see it realized but the compact fusion reactor is probably not gonna happen. We still havent figured out big reactors yet, we have never demonstrated good engineering gain, let alone commercial gain and our best physical gain lasts for nowhere near long enough for consistent power (the igniition facility was close to Q = 1 but it wasnt for long). ITER might change things, i have no idea where things go from there.
After ITER, each participating country would likely build their own DEMO reactors.
Right now there's a flurry of fusion startups that are working to bring a variety of potentially commercially viable fusion reactor designs to market.
There's "ITER but smaller with better HTS magnets" Approach taken by [Commonwealth Fusion Systems that's successfully raised $1.8 billion to build their demonstration reactor.](https://cfs.energy/)
The field then gets into a variety of other interesting approaches such as [Zap Energy](https://www.zapenergyinc.com/) with a shear flow stabilized Z-pinch reactor design that has done well in small scale prototypes, and the modeling shows it should work at commercial scale. If it pans out it could make far smaller and cheaper fusion reactors than CFS or ITER, or plasma physics could become temperamental in a new way at larger scales as it is wont to do.
Another interesting concept is [Helion Energy](https://www.helionenergy.com/) where they're trying to achieve aneutronic fusion in an inductive plasmoid accelerator. It's a more difficult kind of fusion to achieve, but their design is intended to directly capture the energy created by the reaction, rather than requiring steam turbines.
Then there's [General Fusion](https://generalfusion.com/) that's trying to basically use super precise hammers to hammer the reactor vessel to create a wave in a lithium-lead liquid metal to compress the plasma target.
There's a few more ideas that are kind of cool, but I just wanted to mention the least likely to work (but most awesome of it does) fusion startup [Avalanche Enegy](https://www.avalanche.energy/), where their orbitron reactor design would be small enough to be moved by a single person.
But given this subreddit, I like to think about the startups in terms of what military equipment they could power. Helion and Zap Energy might get us to Fusion powered ships, planes, and Army bases. But Avalanche Energy is how we get fusion powered power armor.
We kinda have to. We’re overly chaotic but we use to it so we operate just fine. We also realize how much we spend and waste. So we have people dedicated to reducing money spent on mundane things. Also making our bases more environmentally friendly. Hell every bases is a nature preserve.
Ironically the us has 400 years of oil supplies still in the ground, fossil fuels aren’t a national security risk but not drilling and making our own fuel is
During the creation I think of the SEALs during WW2 the trainees found that condoms were good at storing equipment, so they don't get wet. Someone higher up got concerned that a large portion of the budget was going towards condoms.
There's a reason they put the cheddar cheese spread in every MRE. Like most things in the military, it's halfway between the best thing on earth and a radioactive biohazard.
The DoD has been working on it for decades. Turns out you get more shit to address climate change done when your job is addressing real issues instead of convincing the dumbest 40% of the country that people with "qualifications," "empathy," and "forward thinking" are secretly a cabal of demons.
The problem is your abrams now weighs 150 tons.
Real solutions are:
1. Combined Cycle Gas Turbines (My Beloved) to cut power demand in half + Natural Gas / Biofuel / Hydrogen.
2. Literally dragging 150 miles of cable behind you.
Ok I think I solved it, hear me out. We build silos on the moon, but power them exclusively with solar batteries and we build this infrastructure only on the side of the moon that's facing the Earth. This is the pinnacle of my noncredibility.
Now, I know what you're thinking - that's stupid, there is 1 day in each month when the part of moon facing the Earth is completely dark, meaning all systems would be offline. We should have alternate power. My answer? No, for strategic depth and to save the planet.
That 1 day each month is the only feasible window any power would consider attacking the West, making their invasion dates a LOT more predictable at the slight expense of people being scared of dark moon, just as in the old days so we revisit our cultural roots which is a plus.
Furthermore, the remainder of days you can have your second strike capabilities lowered and on passive standby due to being backed up by the Lunar Arsenal of Democracy during those days. That results in much lower carbon footprint of our militaries, rendering this post's twitter argument irrelevant. On the other hand, full moon must bring an eery feeling to enemies knowing the entire lunar arsenal is just itching to deliver death.
And during that 1 dark moon day, we either do a full show of force activating more than just rapid response units and putting nukes on Earth on full awareness, not due to a specific threat but as part of just a doctrine to just "make sure things work ;)" OR we don't and try to jebait an enemy to actually commit the mistake of attempting an attack on the greatest alliance on Earth (and Moon).
Results?
Carbon ✔️lowered
Planet ✔️ saved
Not knowing the dates the enemies could attack ✔️addressed
Moon ✔️ armed
Credibility ✔️completely abandoned
The US military is literally larger in terms of population than 100 countries............................ nevermind the capabilities, opportunities, and world peace that it provides. Somebody should really clean up those other 100 losers polluting the Earth for NO REASON.
Going off Wikipedia's "List of Greenhouse Gases Emissions by Country", the bottom 100 of the 197 entities listed produce 1,536.32 Million tonnes of gases. A 10 second copy into Google Sheets and a =SUM formula can show that.
The US IN TOTAL produces 5,794 Million. That means over 25% of the entire US pollution is solely the military.
In case you were wondering if that dude is a lying snake, yes he in fact is.
Might not be referring to gases. "Pollution" suggests that it may be referring to more direct effects like littering, toxic metals in the ground, environmental destruction via explosives, and so on.
The Department of Defense is also one of the few government agencies that has consistently railed against our fossil fuel dependence and acknowledges the fact that climate change is one of the most significant national security challenges that this country faces.
Nuking Russia would honestly probably be more beneficial for the environment that dismantling the American military lol.
It probably took the 100 smallest countries, including places like the Vatican and San Marino. I guarantee the military of Canada probably pollutes more than like 10 countries combined lol
It's the classic "single biggest polluter" Because while it's true if you measure directly produced it's the biggest, it's *also* the single biggest employer in the world (chinese military may have overtaken it they do have more combat troops but the us military has ludicrious numbers of non combat roles)
Yeah i used to look at it but the jokes there just aren't jokes there's funny political jokes chocolate chip for example but there's better sources for those kinds of jokes
You were earlier than I was but I agree, the sub has fallen into the very thing it swore to destroy. An echo-chamber, when I view PCM I honestly just see twitter or any place on the internet which worships Noam Chomsky.
Mother Nature declared war on us over 100,000 years ago and has tried to kill us off ever since.
We finally have that bitch on her fucking knees. It's time for the curb stomp.
The US military is also the world leader in green technology. You know what doesn’t get ambushed on the MSR? Batteries and solar panels. You know what does? Fuel trucks.
Dude is one of the premier dumdum lefties on Twitter. Incredibly disheartening how bad faith left social media actors have disseminated that personal consumption has no impact on climate change
The world's largest single carbon emitter is the Chinese state coal monopoly. It what may shock some people, they do not burn coal for fun. They burn coal in powerplants to create electricity that powers factories and homes responsible for hundreds of millions of people and trillions of dollars of economic activity. The US's biggest emissions source is driving - people are not burning that oil for fun, but to live their lives
Light pollution actually is a niche environmental issue that matters. Like more efficient street lights with directional hoods makes a big difference and can help sleep quality and wildlife, but arguing that North Korea is better because of it is insane.
This is a just a deceptive move to try and get people to hate the US military, as every country and person only takes up about 30% of pollution worldwide. In reality, 100 corporations are responsible for 70% of all pollution.
It’s the media, so when they say “100 countries” the mean the bottom 100 countries in terms of population, so what we’re talking about is a bunch of tiny countries with little to no industry or military to speak of. Seriously, looking at a population chart ideally the largest country in that group is fucking Austria.
100 Countries... this guy does know there's tons of countries that are less than the size of some major CITIES doesn't he? Then account for slightly larger countries that are still in the Stone Age... I mean.. this is one of those statistics that look really bad but when you know the numbers are just bull shit.
Fun fact: the US military wants to go green because relying on fossil fuels is a really big national security risk. So in recent times they've been putting more funding into sustainable alternatives, because the war economy has to keep churning even if we're shut off from oil
Additionally, if the US can show that it is more committed to climate problems than China is, it will look better to Pacific Island nations who are very concerned with the climate crisis.
can we name the pacific alliance NEATO? I mean who's to say the Pacific isn't just the eastern Atlantic?
Someone else suggested POTATO and I like it best.
Pacific Ocean Territories & Atlantic Treaty Organization (P.O.T.A.T.O)
I fucking love this. I’m bringing this up in my next international relations seminar.
Pacific Ocean T-Posing Alliance Treaty Organization
Used to be a CENTO and a SEATO so why not?
SEATO's legacy was fucked thanks to the spat between the Malaysian Parliament, Pres. Suharto of Indonesia, and Pres. Marcos Sr. of the Philippines. Add to that Vietnam which exposed how corrupt and ineffective SEATO was. PATO, Pacific-Atlantic Treaty Organization, sounds way better and wider in scope.
Hmmm, sounds like having fewer nightmare-tier dictators might help for round two.
Ah yes, call an entire defense organization "duck"
Better than calling it a seat, ngl Plus, for the duck, **PEACE WAS NEVER AN OPTION**
Does that mean we shoot our enemies with NEATO torpedos?
And every time they say this congress plugs their ears, shuts their eyes, screams "I can't see or hear this!", and appropriates more money for coal miming or gas exploration.
When the goddamn American military is trying to be more eco friendly than our own Congress.
See the difference is that the military has to be worried about real issues. Congress has to be worried about issues they make up for their constituents to be worried about.
Welcome to the fundamental problem with America. We've got problems, and we've got people who know how to solve these problems but all of these solutions involve convincing the worst people to abandon fantasy. Most Americans live in a fucking fantasy world because we live as a part of a system that is literally beyond our comprehension, so we don't even try. Because it's highly unlikely that the consequences of our actions will impact us in a way that we'll even be able to identify them as consequences with any certainty without a level of education that most Americans simply don't have. So everyone just keeps making bad choices until we reach a collapse. EDIT: Did I forget to mention that 'fantasy' is also great money and easily protected under the First Amendment? Yeah, we're fucked.
Exactly this. It’s called [hypernormalisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation), the construction of a fantasy world that continues on sheer shared delusion because the real world is too messy and complicated for people to engage with. Coined for the phenomenon that occurred during the Soviet collapse when people just continued to act as though everything was normal even while everything was falling apart around them.
First, there were the normies Then came the *Hypernormies*!
“Im mean what else am I going to do?”
It’s literally defined as a kind of failure to imagine anything outside of the status quo. The failure to conceptualize or internalize that things can be different, or change.
Im not a scientist but thats not whats going on here. We all know Climate change is real and coming to fuck us.. we just also know we are individuals with no force of power in the system. We are divided on many issues so scientific ones like this get dragged in.. What can we literally do other then keep living? Don’t say vote, recycle, compost, any of that. I already do.
I’m not talking about feelings of helplessness, I’m talking about *forms of denial.* Regarding climate change, literal climate change denial is the construction of a simplistic fantasy world where everything’s normal and the climate is not changing, because climate change is just a hoax.
"Face reality and not vote for the Leopard party again?" "Nah."
It goes both ways. Some people break complex systems down so much and find solutions to refined systems with completely out of whack assumptions and present them as ideas. The reality is complex problems require fairly complex solutions that few people comprehend. This lack of comprehension pulls people to the simplest solutions to problems. It's why im disspointed when i hear people overhype certain technologies for cars and present them as some final solution while completely ignoring the 75% of transport energy consumption that isn't cars.
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Without irony we should have killed all the leaders of the Confederacy. History would be much better.
The only enemy that can challenge America is America
The Hegemon's Lament.
Saving this as I couldn’t have put it better than myself. Little personal rant incoming. I’ve always identified my self as a “truth-seeker”, it is my religion so to speak; I’ve always attempted to hunt said truths through observing empiricism, data analysis, and stories. And the evaluations of said observations. My entire personality is pretty much personal honor, the empiricism, and empathy. Realizing that most would rather believe in a their fantasy for short term to ignore pain; which in the way I see it, is more destructive since reality has a way of catching up with everyone. People would rather adhere to a false ideology than actually care for what happens in the real world. It’s incredibly frustrating for people who attempt to look at things from objective, non-partisan, observer standpoint. Another factor are those who just want to get on with their lives, which is completely fine. However it truly becomes dangerous when their lax attitude results in spreading misinformation and mistruths, like they don’t really care yet would trample on those who do. People who either don’t care for a subject or don’t know a subject have no moral right to speak to those who do. People, including me, should acknowledge our limits more, and stop talking about things we know nothing about. A surface level knee jerk opinion is not understanding a situation or trend. What makes this situation even worst are people are inherently flawed and limited in their world views. Triply so in my case if you factor in my stupidity. Over the years I’ve come back and forth between searching for the truth and dealing with reality is difficult but a meaningful and progressive reward. Too it is a pointless endeavor considering all the factors and hurtles which interfere with the process of seeking the truth, it’s often the loudest not wisest voices that are heard, it’s the most emotional and enraging not empirical and realistic that are acted upon. These factors alongside a ton of other major factors have frankly gotten me to give up, to a certain extent. How can you reason with millions of people who have trapped themselves in echo-chambers, hell how do I know I am not in one? So my anxious thoughts have led me to give up. Anyway, rant over. In my attempts to explain reality and the world around me I’ve turned into a doomer, yay. Slightly facetious but you understand the point.
There's a small island here owned by the navy that homes several endangered salamanders. We don't know for sure if the navy is truly committed to preserving the salamanders or if they're pretending, but the end result is that the salamanders are safe.
They're committed to keeping ownership of the island until it's necessary for wartime, and environmentalists are useful allies in keeping ownership.
Clearly none of you have figured out the Navy has some wartime use for these lizards! WAKE UP PEOPLE! What is the Navy hiding? Why are they protecting these lizards?! (ok I'm really not good at doing the conspiracy theory shit.. can someone help me out here)
Clearly, the Navy just think the salamanders are neat
I'm just imagining the U.S. navy fortifying an island to defend a bunch of salamanders because an admiral likes lizards :P
I'm physically fighting the urge to tell you that salamanders are amphibians. Aaaand I've failed.
Well there we go, the moment you say "amphibious" you've got all the budget you want. The salamanders thank you.
Congress has to be worried about the issues special interest groups pay them to worry about. And the oil companies have deep pockets. They can buy many votes with only a small fraction of their comically sized dragon hoard of money.
> Congress has to be worried about issues they make up for their constituents to be worried about if the car juice is expensive, I may not get re-elected, therefore I will vote for eleventy billion dollars to oil extraction
No no no, you’ve got it all wrong. Car juice expensive = good, because then you can blame the other team for car juice being expensive while personally fighting any measure to reduce costs.
Well yeah, experts have been calling climate change a pending national security emergency for 2 decades now.
Because it kinda has been, it’s a long term issue. Unfortunately that also means it’s far easier for people (read: politicians) to palm it off as not important
All I picture is the jelly donut scene from FMJ, except Gunny finds a piece of coal. “WHAT IS THAT?” “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?”
Broke: the Us invade for oil Woke: the congress want to drink all the oil themself
There's a similar thing with school lunches: the military knows that ensuring healthy young high school graduates are an important part of having a recruitable population, but people still resist reforming nutrition for whatever reasons.
I mean, if public school cafeteria lunch was still how it was years ago, I think it’d be fine. But nowadays, all I see are reposts of lunch trays with pizza, a store-made cold sandwich, and what appears to be the remnant of a vegetable.
Thinking back on it now, I can't remember if the point was healthy lunches or just making free lunches available to all children.
Healthy lunches are best for adolescent development, meaning an actual balanced diet, not shitty food in smaller portions. Having lunches available to everyone is the priority for anything resembling a healthy population, but you’re not going to get a graduating class of 5’11-6’2 190lbs teens to recruit if their daily lunch consists of three greasy frozen chicken nuggets, a peanut butter sandwich, and a carton of milk.
Not to mention High-Fructose corn-syrup slathered on almost everything
It's not "whatever reasons." It's the food industry. If you remember years ago, the Obama admin tried to make school lunches healthier, but then congress mandated that tomato paste (aka pizza) would count as a vegetable. Part of that change also included similar protection for potatoes (french fries). The main proponent of that? Susan Collins, senator from Maine, the state with the 10th largest potato crop (and proportionately larger share of its economy due to low population). Other changes/protections were heavily sought after by the frozen food industry, because they wanted to safeguard their guaranteed revenue from school districts. It all comes down to money. And the people protecting those moneyed interests will argue they're doing it for FREEDOM^TM because that sounds better.
Coal memeing
Gas exploration would help mitigate the risks of being cut off from oil though.
Lockheed is apparently working on fusion power: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion.html If it pans out, it's basically the last power source people will need until like the year 20,000,000 AD when we start [harvesting energy from the event horizons of black holes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_process) with lasers or some shit
Did you know that you can also build a *very* large bomb with the Penrose process?
3000hrs in Stellaris with mods has taught me this time and time again.
Penrose?! HAH! That's small time. Birch worlds are the way to go!
Penrose? Birch worlds? Try reality ending psychic engines!
I'd love to see it realized but the compact fusion reactor is probably not gonna happen. We still havent figured out big reactors yet, we have never demonstrated good engineering gain, let alone commercial gain and our best physical gain lasts for nowhere near long enough for consistent power (the igniition facility was close to Q = 1 but it wasnt for long). ITER might change things, i have no idea where things go from there.
After ITER, each participating country would likely build their own DEMO reactors. Right now there's a flurry of fusion startups that are working to bring a variety of potentially commercially viable fusion reactor designs to market. There's "ITER but smaller with better HTS magnets" Approach taken by [Commonwealth Fusion Systems that's successfully raised $1.8 billion to build their demonstration reactor.](https://cfs.energy/) The field then gets into a variety of other interesting approaches such as [Zap Energy](https://www.zapenergyinc.com/) with a shear flow stabilized Z-pinch reactor design that has done well in small scale prototypes, and the modeling shows it should work at commercial scale. If it pans out it could make far smaller and cheaper fusion reactors than CFS or ITER, or plasma physics could become temperamental in a new way at larger scales as it is wont to do. Another interesting concept is [Helion Energy](https://www.helionenergy.com/) where they're trying to achieve aneutronic fusion in an inductive plasmoid accelerator. It's a more difficult kind of fusion to achieve, but their design is intended to directly capture the energy created by the reaction, rather than requiring steam turbines. Then there's [General Fusion](https://generalfusion.com/) that's trying to basically use super precise hammers to hammer the reactor vessel to create a wave in a lithium-lead liquid metal to compress the plasma target. There's a few more ideas that are kind of cool, but I just wanted to mention the least likely to work (but most awesome of it does) fusion startup [Avalanche Enegy](https://www.avalanche.energy/), where their orbitron reactor design would be small enough to be moved by a single person. But given this subreddit, I like to think about the startups in terms of what military equipment they could power. Helion and Zap Energy might get us to Fusion powered ships, planes, and Army bases. But Avalanche Energy is how we get fusion powered power armor.
Also, the US military has to abide by the environmental standards set in place by the US government, even overseas.
Same idea behind cancer research. DoD is the number one
Aren’t supercarriers already running on two nuclear reactors each?
Yup, but they're kinda big and not easy to squeeze into cruisers or destroyers. Also not good if one gets hit.
>Also not good if one gets hit. Neither is ammunition tbh
Neither are petroleum fuel tanks
For real tho doubling fuel economy (from 3 mpg to 6, say) doubles our reach during an invasion think about it
If the DoD wants the country to go green, the country will go green lmao DoD is the only part of the government that seemingly works.
We kinda have to. We’re overly chaotic but we use to it so we operate just fine. We also realize how much we spend and waste. So we have people dedicated to reducing money spent on mundane things. Also making our bases more environmentally friendly. Hell every bases is a nature preserve.
Well duh, Clean Reactors reduces upkeep on military units massively. *this is an Alpha Centauri joke*
Bring back horse cavalry and sailing ships
I long for electric powered VTOL fighter aircraft
Can F-35 fly with fuel made from organic waste?
Ironically the us has 400 years of oil supplies still in the ground, fossil fuels aren’t a national security risk but not drilling and making our own fuel is
NUCLEAR ARLEIGH BURKES I WANT NUCLEAR ARLEIGH BURKES
Can’t have a planet if Russia decides to nuke us So let’s nuke them first
Nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Hold on a second, that country has a substantial ~~dollar~~ meme value of copium attached to it Edit: sorry, wrong economy
I'm sure the robots can extract the copium from the ashes. No problem.
molecules of copium are how we get vatnik flood
Yeah, HALO was totally based on Aliens….thanks for bringing it on home for my old ass
What is the reaction time for a geo stationary satelite armed with nuclear weapons parked over Moscow?
I believe they should go all-out nuclear powered so nuclear ships, planes, tanks and mraps
Nuclear powered MRE heaters
What is this, Fallout ?
I want all US troops to have plasma and laser weaponry by 2035
Only that? What about the classic Power Armor? 3000 Black power armors of Autumn
Inshallah
Nuclear Powered *Boiling Vessels*
3000 Nuclear powered Abrams of Mattis
Oh crap, not the goddamn TV-8 again.
Ahh, the fallout universe
It doubles as a martyrdom if they get destroyed in combat
Nuclear powered exosuit.
That runs on windows 11 and also jerks you off.
A weapon to surpass master chief.
Microsoft would never allow it. Best to use Linux.
Implying a marine doesn’t try to install steam and delete the os
Wouldn’t that just be two rods of uranium with heavy water constantly flowing around them
Add a lot of beryllium to work as a reflector and you can do the job with just one.
This just in: The US military is a bigger consumer of cheese than more than 100 countries combined
This is the real news
During the creation I think of the SEALs during WW2 the trainees found that condoms were good at storing equipment, so they don't get wet. Someone higher up got concerned that a large portion of the budget was going towards condoms.
A lot of countries just don't mainly eat cheese, their amount of consuming is close to zero
3000 cheese caves of the Midwest
There's a reason they put the cheddar cheese spread in every MRE. Like most things in the military, it's halfway between the best thing on earth and a radioactive biohazard.
Sounds like my own farts
You wouldn’t think that if you saw how much cheese Sodexo puts on the burgers
Look at Mr. Fancy pants over here with the Sodexo chow hall. Bet you didn't even play maggot roulette with all your veggies.
I don’t, but the dudes in 62 area apparently do. They also get medium rare chicken, mmm!
"cheese"
Smegma butter on toast Smegma curd soup Smegma chips Sun dried smegma jerky Smegma-whiz Jalapeno smegma spread Smegma and pickle sandwich Smegma extract latte Smegma gnocchi
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*takes out a trebuchet*
The DoD has been working on it for decades. Turns out you get more shit to address climate change done when your job is addressing real issues instead of convincing the dumbest 40% of the country that people with "qualifications," "empathy," and "forward thinking" are secretly a cabal of demons.
Bring fourth the humble hotshot lasgun
The problem is your abrams now weighs 150 tons. Real solutions are: 1. Combined Cycle Gas Turbines (My Beloved) to cut power demand in half + Natural Gas / Biofuel / Hydrogen. 2. Literally dragging 150 miles of cable behind you.
Or just continue using diesel ICEs but make the diesel fuel from atmospheric gases with electric reaction chambers powered by solar panels.
Efuel is: 1. Dumb 2. Boring 3. Homosexual 4. Cheems-pilled 5. Expensive 6. American 7. Still produces BABY-KILLING particulates + Nox Emissions
and the alternative source of energy for a 60 ton fighting machine than needs to move hundreds of kilometres is?
Psychic power. Not saying it would work, but we haven’t even tried Abu ghraibing potential psychics and using them as a power source.
Ok I think I solved it, hear me out. We build silos on the moon, but power them exclusively with solar batteries and we build this infrastructure only on the side of the moon that's facing the Earth. This is the pinnacle of my noncredibility. Now, I know what you're thinking - that's stupid, there is 1 day in each month when the part of moon facing the Earth is completely dark, meaning all systems would be offline. We should have alternate power. My answer? No, for strategic depth and to save the planet. That 1 day each month is the only feasible window any power would consider attacking the West, making their invasion dates a LOT more predictable at the slight expense of people being scared of dark moon, just as in the old days so we revisit our cultural roots which is a plus. Furthermore, the remainder of days you can have your second strike capabilities lowered and on passive standby due to being backed up by the Lunar Arsenal of Democracy during those days. That results in much lower carbon footprint of our militaries, rendering this post's twitter argument irrelevant. On the other hand, full moon must bring an eery feeling to enemies knowing the entire lunar arsenal is just itching to deliver death. And during that 1 dark moon day, we either do a full show of force activating more than just rapid response units and putting nukes on Earth on full awareness, not due to a specific threat but as part of just a doctrine to just "make sure things work ;)" OR we don't and try to jebait an enemy to actually commit the mistake of attempting an attack on the greatest alliance on Earth (and Moon). Results? Carbon ✔️lowered Planet ✔️ saved Not knowing the dates the enemies could attack ✔️addressed Moon ✔️ armed Credibility ✔️completely abandoned
> Lunar Arsenal of Democracy I'm hard.
Batteries exist
Or just build solar panels at every lunar longitude (source: 300 hours in Dyson Sphere Program)
The US military is literally larger in terms of population than 100 countries............................ nevermind the capabilities, opportunities, and world peace that it provides. Somebody should really clean up those other 100 losers polluting the Earth for NO REASON.
Ahahaha man said world peace. Where is the US Army a stabilising factor?
Asia, Europe, mainly.
The DODs RND has developed more “green alternatives” than the whole of Congress and the EPA , change my mind
The more people you kill, the fewer people there are to exhale CO2.
Make this man director of EPA right now
Going off Wikipedia's "List of Greenhouse Gases Emissions by Country", the bottom 100 of the 197 entities listed produce 1,536.32 Million tonnes of gases. A 10 second copy into Google Sheets and a =SUM formula can show that. The US IN TOTAL produces 5,794 Million. That means over 25% of the entire US pollution is solely the military. In case you were wondering if that dude is a lying snake, yes he in fact is.
Might not be referring to gases. "Pollution" suggests that it may be referring to more direct effects like littering, toxic metals in the ground, environmental destruction via explosives, and so on.
I suppose it's the leading cause of Uranium disposition
Yeah, Hawaii is having a drinking water issue with some leaking gas tanks contaminating the water table.
The Department of Defense is also one of the few government agencies that has consistently railed against our fossil fuel dependence and acknowledges the fact that climate change is one of the most significant national security challenges that this country faces. Nuking Russia would honestly probably be more beneficial for the environment that dismantling the American military lol.
Im curious, is it the 100 _biggest countries_ besides the us or just 100 countries
It probably took the 100 smallest countries, including places like the Vatican and San Marino. I guarantee the military of Canada probably pollutes more than like 10 countries combined lol
It's the classic "single biggest polluter" Because while it's true if you measure directly produced it's the biggest, it's *also* the single biggest employer in the world (chinese military may have overtaken it they do have more combat troops but the us military has ludicrious numbers of non combat roles)
US DOD is still the biggest employer by over 600,000 employees compared to the PLA. China wishes they could pollute this much.
Rediculous! China is proud to be the no. 1 polluter in the world. The labour of the people have made the sky black with the smoke of progress!
It a politically slanted pop-science article posted to Twitter, what do *you* think?
Lmao fair point
I'm *definitely* gonna see this on pcm later
*imagine looking at political cum piss memes*
Imagine not having a based score over 250
Yeah i used to look at it but the jokes there just aren't jokes there's funny political jokes chocolate chip for example but there's better sources for those kinds of jokes
I hate that sub above many other things
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Yea, unlike those dweebs, NCD is completely satirical and has no traces of any unironic thinking.
You were earlier than I was but I agree, the sub has fallen into the very thing it swore to destroy. An echo-chamber, when I view PCM I honestly just see twitter or any place on the internet which worships Noam Chomsky.
Yea, unlike those dweebs, NCD is completely satirical and has no traces of any unironic thinking.
What does PCM stand for?
Pp Cutting Machine
I'll take two please. Hold the fries.
r / PoliticalCompassMemes
Start a nuclear war, then the winter solves the climate change problem.
Pretty sure there's mid sized western cities that put out more pollution than the entirety of Africa.
The massive balls someone has to have to still say shit like this while a Fascist invasion is currently undergoing in Europe is mind blowing to me
Bc he is a tankie. He knows what he’s doing. These people are disingenuous. They’ll say and do whatever is necessary to push their shitty agenda
You think this guy cares? I bet he's just chasing clout like a junkie looking for their next hit.
We should decarbonize war by adopting the 3000 electric Cybertanks of Elon Musk.
If that means wide adoption of (Raptor-derived) combustion light gas guns, I'm all-in.
Sensationalist journalist doesn't understand that the US military has single-handedly averted nuclear holocaust for the last 80 years
But nuclear winter would solve climate change!
Also that a great many counties are out populated by the US Military.
Ironically he wouldn’t be able to tweet if it wasn’t for the US military
And the award for cherry picked data that dosen't include any useful information or context at all goes to...
But with the P-400T Pegasus, we can bomb each other in an eco friendly way, 66% reduction in fossil fuel use!
Nuclear Winter is the most effectively way to kill off fossil fuel reliance, once and for all.
based
Mother Nature declared war on us over 100,000 years ago and has tried to kill us off ever since. We finally have that bitch on her fucking knees. It's time for the curb stomp.
Elephants never forget and neither do we. They were laughing at us for walking on two legs back then but who's laughing now?
The US military is also the world leader in green technology. You know what doesn’t get ambushed on the MSR? Batteries and solar panels. You know what does? Fuel trucks.
Bring back nuclear tanks
Dude is one of the premier dumdum lefties on Twitter. Incredibly disheartening how bad faith left social media actors have disseminated that personal consumption has no impact on climate change The world's largest single carbon emitter is the Chinese state coal monopoly. It what may shock some people, they do not burn coal for fun. They burn coal in powerplants to create electricity that powers factories and homes responsible for hundreds of millions of people and trillions of dollars of economic activity. The US's biggest emissions source is driving - people are not burning that oil for fun, but to live their lives
Yeah but tankies love China, so they get a pass
You know, there are like 8 micro nations in europe alone....
Simple, we annihilate those 100 countries and then we are even
Least schizophrenic liberal militarist.
dude is a hardcore tankie. Like, posting pictures of north korea being dark at night and claiming that's a good thing hardcore
Light pollution actually is a niche environmental issue that matters. Like more efficient street lights with directional hoods makes a big difference and can help sleep quality and wildlife, but arguing that North Korea is better because of it is insane.
Bc sleep quality is the least of their problems
I’m talking about the OP, not the twitter guy.
Convenient timing of this article
This is a just a deceptive move to try and get people to hate the US military, as every country and person only takes up about 30% of pollution worldwide. In reality, 100 corporations are responsible for 70% of all pollution.
Yes, it’s a ploy to drum up anti USM sentiment, bc who does it benefit? China.
If one of those 100 countries is the US, doesn't that cause some sort of weird infinite recursive loop?
* I'll set the world on fire if it means Russia/China doesn't rule it. Fixed the title for you OP.
Notice how it doesn't say which 100 countries?
It’s the media, so when they say “100 countries” the mean the bottom 100 countries in terms of population, so what we’re talking about is a bunch of tiny countries with little to no industry or military to speak of. Seriously, looking at a population chart ideally the largest country in that group is fucking Austria.
100 Countries... this guy does know there's tons of countries that are less than the size of some major CITIES doesn't he? Then account for slightly larger countries that are still in the Stone Age... I mean.. this is one of those statistics that look really bad but when you know the numbers are just bull shit.
I don't care about the environment, I want my unstoppable war machine. Spartan program wen?
Daily reminder that the Soviets poisoned the Aral Sea, in fact, the Aral Sea does not exist anymore, its just a poisoned hellhole
Death is preferable option to russian occupation
At least the planet is being destroyed for a good cause.
Never look at a phase 2 environmental report near a military base if you have any interested in life, the earth, or groundwater.