My government never protected me from these attacks and no one was interested in investigating it, even though, that's technically multiple federal violations of wire fraud and cyberterrorism.

If you use Linux and don't mind RTFM, it is completely your fault. Government or hackers have nothing to do with it at all.

But cold fusion looks like it's on the verge of a breakthru.

Cold fusion seem to exist, but it is still can't be used as energy source. You need much more energy to sustain it, than you get from it.

The same is with thermonuclear fusion. You could easily build working thermonuclear fusion reactor spending a weekend in garage (search "fusor"), but it will not be self-sustaineable source of energy.

But the dark heart of this alchemy (nuclear physics) is that it always becomes weaponizeable

Absolutely everything with energy output and/or density high enough to provide a decent amount of energy allowing individual to become independent from authorities is theoretically weaponizeable. Every working technology of that kind will be declared "weaponizeable", "harmful" and will be prohibited for individual use, like RITEGs f.e..

You would always have to hide from authorities if you finally find a way to build some independent energy source powerful enough to gain energy independence.

Everything should be open source. It's the only way to have a future.

Physics is still open source. F.e. everybody who are interested could easily find out how to build a small and simple nuclear reactor. But you are artificially limited in usage of that knowledge by state restrictions on materials or instruments needed.

However, openness is a good flag to filter hoaxes and other garbage. If you see or read something on some highly interesting and fringe topic and it have undisclosed "commercial secret", "know-how" or failure to mention important details, preventing you from replication - this is a 100% hoax.

Interesting post, cheers. I've always been pretty intrigued by geothermal energy but I decided to start a bit of a search after reading this and came across this decent article discussing different energies and figured I'd share: https://www.quantumrun.com/Prediction/renewables-vs-thorium-and-fusion-energy-wildcards-future-energy-p5

P.s. Palladium is good enough for Iron Man it's good enough for me.

Thanks for the post. This is also something I’ve also never understood about crypto - but I’d also acknowledge that maybe I’m naive to its actual function/purpose.

To me it just seems like a pump and dump scheme where the only tangible value it carries is others confidence that it will somehow, some way carry a real-life application/valuation. Currency backed by a government gives confidence/buying power and I guess at the end of the day a 100$ bill is just a piece of cloth - you can’t create technological components with it which is why I like the example you gave, supply and demand. And I’m not in love with the treasury or the methods in which they devalue the currency to spare themselves financial ruin (bail outs etc). And in that sense I see a dollar much like I see a bitcoin, the governments just beat them to the punch in terms of applicability.

I also understand that a lot of crypto advertises that it is immune to this sort of manipulation, static amount of coins, etc - but until you can apply it in the same way as cash in any situation I just don’t get it and i don’t think anyone invests in crypto for those reasons, i think they invest to make an actual dollar off some other sucker who bought into the ideologies.