At this point it looks like the only entities really serious about developing nuclear fusion are China and Bill Gates. Of course one wants it to benefit humanity, the other wants more intellectual property to lord over everyone else.
China may well beat the Americans to the moon at this point as well. I imagine most technological advances in every field will come out of China, seeing as they’re leading the world in patent applications and the US all but refuses to share research.
I don’t like patents.
Neither do I, but they’re a fact of life right now and at least a superficial metric to compare how “innovative” one entity is over another.
There’s literally an act of Congress that prohibits NASA from collaborating with Chinese scientists or organizations.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot…
The US is also chasing academics of Chinese origin out of US universities and research institutions with new yellow peril type propaganda and racist witch hunts.
This could have been USSR
Rest in piss cornboy and Gorba
Soviet or Chinese, both of them are socialist
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Yes, but they were all by western failscience. China since 20 years have a regular pattern of delivering when they announce something. So while i perfectly understand you, this time we should actually do have some hope.
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but it seems like there might be safety and waste issues.
Well it’s not like 4x computer game when you just invent something in it’s final form, their stated goal is not “perfectly clean energy for everyone”, but “getting more energy from the fusion that put in”, which is one of the most important milestones, but still just a milestone.
based china
reminds me that china is also leading research into hologram technology, it’s a laser that strips electrons from the air and can draw with the light that is emitted
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maybe just some will-o’-the-wisps
That’s one of the holy grails of sci-fi, with dozens of failstarts already.
definitely hit my nerdy notes
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand
Can you post a copy of the article for peeps who don’t wanna pay?
12ft doesn’t seem to work for SCMP. It just breaks the site.
Reader Mode doesn’t capture the whole article, but only the first few paragraphs that just introduce the project are missing in the PDF I posted here: https://api.minio.arsenm.dev/adl/China’s top weapons scientist says nuclear fusion power is 6 years away South China Morning Post.pdf
Does this work?
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Works on Chrome and Firefox. On Chrome it’s not available on extension store.
On Android it’s only works on Firefox Nightly and need manual installation.