https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/towards-artificial-sun-will-china-win-nuclear-fusion-race
Beijing has a lot of irons in the global energy market fire, facing off against Russia for nuclear energy dominance in Africa, ramping up coal-fired capacity abroad while simultaneously touting its lofty decarbonization plans back at home, and now, powering up a brand new, cutting-edge “artificial sun.”
The so-called sun is a nuclear fusion reactor which came online for the first time last week, “marking a great advance in the country's nuclear power research capabilities,” according to a report by Science X Network’s Phys.org.
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NIF is way ahead of this. Besides China is our friend Russia is the enemy.
An unsupported scientific statement followed by an unsupported political statement. Sorta typical here.
12/14/2020 5:58 PM
Care to add something better?
"only 50 years away"
9:11 50 years ago, they said fusion was 20 years away. Now they say it is 50 years away. Given Livermore’s trajectory, I’d bet it’ll never happen. Unfortunately, I cannot collect on that bet.
Fusion works. Look up at noon. Unfortunately, humankind is not smart enough to scale it down.
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