Which country do you think will win the race for sustainable fusion? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Obviously not everything is a race, and adoption matters much more than invention, but was interesting seeing China, France, and Britain's (and I think Canada maybe?) fusion teams one upping their fusion length records. I think my money is still on China, but I'm not a fusion expert so I'm not quite sure hoe far apart all the contenders are from each other.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

My problem with fission reactors is they take a really long time to get running whereas solar can be deployed quickly, even in areas that are underdeveloped. We need to decarbonize global electricity production at a rate far too fast to build nuclear reactors for everyone in the world.

Those solar panels also must be manufactured, which require building more factories and mines. In the end, the difference in industrial investment scale is not that important.

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