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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 54 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 33 points 4 months 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.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago

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

[–] librejoe@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 months ago

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

[–] bilb@lem.monster 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (5 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.

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[–] roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 6 points 4 months ago

Discharge though. Ew.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I see what you did there

[–] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 months ago (4 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...

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 41 points 4 months ago (24 children)

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

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[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months 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.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 months 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@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago

Won't somebody think of the CEOs!

[–] match@pawb.social 17 points 4 months ago

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

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months 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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[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months 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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[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago

It is not the first commercially funded fusion reactor even assuming this qualified.

https://www.energystartups.org/top/fusion-energy/

Not hard to find a bunch.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (15 children)

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

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[–] user134450@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months 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?

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Good points and questions. First wall interaction is going to be an interesting problem for this team to work around.

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