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] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I might be jaded from Western scientists always """expecting""" a breakthrough and it never coming, but to be fair they have to perpetually pretend they're close to a breakthrough to get more grant funding and investments. There's no interest in science for its own sake in the West.

China is clearly emerging as the leader of scientific development, though, and the political economy in China is obviously different. I'm still pessimistic about fusion, but if anyone figures it out it'll be them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I understand being skeptical about scientific breakthroughs, but as you said, if any country can do it, it's China.

People have called many things impossible, and China proved them wrong. The CPC is literally a technocracy.

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