MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro 💐
Our chance at free energy was just assassinated 🪦
This post isn’t about Mass Address.
It’s about a person who spent their professional life researching Plasma Science & Fusion. I wasn’t going to say anything about it until I came across a user on X called “bettercallmedhi” who posted the comment below about the assassination. I am only posting this in an attempt to preserve his name and his work. I would expect you all to extend the same courtesy to me should someone come after me regarding Mass Address. My wife has explicit instructions to release my journals and ALL of the source codes should I get unalived.
(I’ve tried my best to clean up the grammar.)
BETTERCALLMEDHI’S COMMENT
I wasn’t planning to comment on the death of MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro without looking closely at his research first & what I found is quite intriguing.👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Loureiro was director of the MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center and Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics working on nuclear fusion to create a virtually unlimited clean energy source. He was shot multiple times at night in his home but…he’s not the first.
Eugene Mallove another MIT scientist passionate about fusion energy was beaten to death outside his home in 2004 with 32 lacerations to his face and body. Why does his research represent an existential threat??
Understand that Loureiro specifically worked on understanding magnetized plasma dynamics, magnetic reconnection plasma, turbulence & confinement & transport mechanisms in fusion plasmas.
His research directly helped inform the design of fusion devices capable of harnessing the energy of fusing plasmas bringing the dream of clean near limitless fusion power closer to reality. What makes his work so dangerous for certain players is it attacked precisely the scientific bottlenecks preventing fusion from becoming commercially viable.
Tokamak plasma is confined by extremely powerful toroidal magnetic fields but magnetohydrodynamic instabilities like tearing modes/disruptions edge localized modes can destroy confinement in milliseconds and damage inner walls.
Understanding & controlling these phenomena is KEY to moving from experimental reactors to operational commercial plants. If fusion becomes viable in the next 10-15 years, it doesn’t just displace an industry, it renders obsolete the entire current global energy infrastructure valued at 8 trillion dollars…
A fusion plant uses deuterium extracted from seawater in virtually infinite quantities. One liter of seawater contains enough deuterium to produce the energy equivalent of 300 liters of gasoline. Tritium is produced via reactions with abundant lithium. The raw material is inexhaustible, decentralized, free and accessible to all countries without geopolitical dependence 🤫 but… the fossil industry fundamentally relies on controlled scarcity and geopolitical dependence…
Oil & gas are geographically concentrated Middle East / Russia / Texas enabling price control via OPEC & oil majors generating 200+ billion dollars in annual profits because they control extraction, refining, and distribution of a scarce resource everyone must buy.
Fusion destroys this model by making energy abundant and decentralized. Any country with seawater access can produce its own deuterium & build fusion reactors: no more importing oil / no dependence on the Strait of Hormuz /no geopolitical leverage based on energy reserves.
Energy prices would collapse once fusion reactors are amortized because marginal fuel cost is essentially zero!!! Understand what this means for ExxonMobil which owns 22 billion barrels of oil reserves valued on their balance sheet at 1k5 billion dollars???
If fusion became viable, these reserves become stranded worthless assets overnight as well as their refining infrastructure, pipelines, tankers, and gas stations. All this infrastructure becomes obsolete in one generation.
Understand that if Loureiro & his team succeeded in precisely modeling these instabilities and developing active control techniques via AI and real-time magnetic feedback, it would reduce the timeline to commercial fusion by 5-10 years.
This means startups like Commonwealth Fusion Systems would go from 2035 promise to a 2030 deployment. The real question is how many brilliant scientists must die under suspicious circumstances before we start protecting our researchers in strategic Fields???
Because if we leave our most precious minds unprotected, we implicitly accept that massive financial interests can eliminate with impunity those who threaten their business model.
He said in 2019: « “There are people who are driven by technology and engineering and others who are driven by fundamental mathematics and physics. We need both.” When we stimulate theoretically inclined minds by framing plasma physics and fusion challenges as beautiful theoretical physics problems we bring into the game incredibly brilliant students people who we want to attract to fusion development transition 10-20 years 💀
By delaying fusion by 10 years, it means 10 additional years generating 200+ billion in annual profits. 2+ trillion in preserved value. The cost of eliminating a few key researchers is essentially zero compared to trillions at stake
Oil majors have documented histories of suppressing disruptive technologies. GM literally bought & dismantled electric trolley systems in 45 US cities in the 1940s-1950s to force automobile dependence. Tobacco companies suppressed research on smoking dangers for 50 years…
MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro