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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 29 points 3 weeks 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 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] librejoe@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks 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 17 points 3 weeks ago (19 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

and africa with that whole silk road thing

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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

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

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[–] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks 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 20 points 3 weeks ago (24 children)

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

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[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks 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 8 points 3 weeks 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 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] match@pawb.social 14 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

Won't somebody think of the CEOs!

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks 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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[–] roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 6 points 3 weeks ago

Discharge though. Ew.

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[–] user134450@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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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