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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Maybe at some point the Americans will get scared that the Chinese are actually making strides ahead of them in electrification and decarbonization to actually get unstuck from their idiotic culture war over fossil fuels.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

America will stop trying to sell oil when it runs out of oil and not one second before, no matter the actual cost.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

and will lash out for being behind for as long as they still have guns

[–] librejoe 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Eh take news from China with a Giga size grain of salt.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

I don't know about this particular piece of news, but the insane expansion of HSR for example is no fake news.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

As opposed to news from the united states, which is certified good and true and democratic

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It will take a new space race for that to happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The space race is on. That’s why Starship has been launching so much. Someone at the FAA must have finally realized that if SpaceX doesn’t go ahead at full SpaceX speed, we’re gonna see China take over space.

They’ve got a space station and a rover on the moon. China will easily overtake us in space, has already in a few places.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and africa with that whole silk road thing

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[–] kerrigan778 21 points 5 days ago (15 children)

This is an article from a CCP operated tabloid... Seriously?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Discharge though. Ew.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (3 children)

To the best of my knowledge, this is the first commercially-funded (i.e., non-government) nuclear fusion reactor. Notable investors are MiHoYo (developers of Genshin Impact), Nio (Chinese EV company), and Sequoia Capital...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (22 children)

It's the CCP. You can't have a non government funded company.

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[–] RubberElectrons 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No??

I've supported engineering at several privately funded nuclear fusion companies, though all of them, this Chinese company included, are building a product out of public school research.

Off the top of my head there's:

  • CFS
  • TAE technologies
  • Thea
  • Zap Energy

And several more...

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[–] kippinitreal 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

In your guys opinion, is that good or bad? Privately funded would mean proprietary & profit driven implementation for such a crucial technology (if successful). I personally don't like it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The CPC still maintains a lot of influence over companies even when they're getting their funding from private industry as part of their "politics in command" strategy for controlling market forces. We'll see how it plays out.

[–] ours 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yep, if they need to disappear a CEO, no matter how big, they can and have done so in the past.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

i don't know why you got a downvote, disappearinga CEO should be the most popular thing the ccp does

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Any path that takes us to unlimited clean energy is the right one IMO. We could always do a little espionage and make our own domestic fusion drive eventually.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In the image of the discharge you can clearly see that the device has no cladding. That means a discharge would be limited to a duration of a few seconds, otherwise the material ablated from the wall would lead to extreme heat losses of the plasma. Did they include a future vessel cladding to the plasma volume calculation in the article?

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