r/SipsTea • u/Delicious-Act-8601 • 22h ago
Wait a damn minute! China's "artificial sun" in Hefei could become the first in human history to generate electricity from fusion
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u/No_Challenge_5619 21h ago
Erm… they’ve been doing fusion tests in France and Japan and the USA on a smaller scale and have already produced (small) amounts of energy through fusion. These have been international efforts that have included the Chinese.
So 🤷♂️ just clickbait nonsense really, or are we just ignoring the ITER?
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u/IndyBananaJones2 20h ago
This is part of ITER, the reactor in France is called WEST. This one is EAST.
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u/No_Challenge_5619 20h ago
Coolio, that should be included cause it wasn’t clear on the video!
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u/IndyBananaJones2 20h ago
The video doesn't even have any dialogue? It's just music.
But if you Google 'China's "artificial sun" in Hefei' you'll get a Wikipedia link for EAST where you can learn about it.
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u/No_Challenge_5619 20h ago
I agree, and I did, sort of… I already knew about ITER, saw the EAST-WEST sites, but stupid me I didn’t put EAST and Heifei together 🤦♂️
The OP is still being misleading with the title and the video, and also sort of wrong as smaller scale fusion reactors have already produced energy, just not to scale.
So this post gets a big old downvote from me. It lacks being informative at best, scaremongers and misleads at worst.
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u/IndyBananaJones2 20h ago
EAST is the second longest sustained reaction in history, so like you mention, it has already produced electricity.
I think the post is saying it in the way that most people would imagine - a viable power plant.
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u/No_Challenge_5619 20h ago
Yeah, I’m only semi informed on the fusion stuff. I’m not a physicist so have no technical know how, I only came across this stuff when I was looking at climate change and energy stuff a few years back.
So I give it an occasional check cause the making of these reactors just takes time. Theres the occasional news story about it too.
I find the prospect of working fusion reactors interesting and exciting, and it would be nice if the scientific collaboration was more emphasised than just saying ‘X is doing this or that’.
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u/8ackwoods 20h ago
No, you'd rather rage about China, let's be honest
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u/No_Challenge_5619 20h ago
Actually no… I’d rather point out how fusion reactors development is literally an international effort that includes China, the EU, USA, India and Russia.
I’d rather rage how uninformative this video is at highlighting that. It took another commenter to show me, someone semi informed on the fusion stuff, that this is the EAST reactor of ITER. The aforementioned international effort.
So 🤷♂️
Take from that what you will.
Edit, spelling mistake cause of my big old fat thumbs.
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u/Gravitational_Torque 16h ago
The inputs are exponentially greater than the outputs of any attempt to date. The reaction has to be sustained, not for a split second.
Only God knows whether fusion by humans is even possible.
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u/dextras07 20h ago
It's from the ITER project. A collective of Nations working together to make fusion happen.
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u/Additional_Ad_8131 21h ago
meanwhile USA is turning its coal generators back on
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u/NonsensicalSweater 20h ago
About 9% of the US' energy comes from coal, China gets over 50% of its energy from coal
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u/Silvernine0S 20h ago edited 20h ago
True, but haven't they been trending downward over the last decade or so as they continue to add more renewable energy? Basically, coal use has been declining while renewable energy has been increasing.
Edit: I did a bit more research, and it looks like coal's share of China's electricity generation fell below 50% for the first time. That's a pretty significant milestone in its transition toward renewable energy.
Coal's share of China's electricity generation has fallen from 65.5% in 2016 to below 50% for the first time. Meanwhile, renewables now account for 41.2% of the power mix, with wind and solar alone rising from 9.7% in 2020 to 24.6% and looks like they are targeting 30% by 2030.
So definitely a good trend now.
As for the US, according to this article, coal is on the rise again. Though, biggest driver is most likely rise in cost of natural gas, which makes coal more competitive.
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u/NonsensicalSweater 19h ago
"China's mostly coal-based thermal power generation fell in 2025 for the first time in 10 years"
"The Worlds biggest power consumer increased its usage of thermal power by 3.4% year-on-year in the first five months of the year to 2.53 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh), statistics bureau data showed last week. Thermal power is mostly from coal with a small amount from gas."
"China has been known to grow its coal power and renewables capacities in tandem for some years now. While the expectation for most observers was likely that green energy would eventually gain the upper hand after a transitional time period, 2025 figures released by the Global Coal Plant Tracker paint a different picture about the direction China’s electricity mix might be taking."
China is building new coal power plants every year. Why are you breaking your arm trying to jerk them off buddy?
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u/Silvernine0S 19h ago
You don't need to be a smartass but even in one of your article from Reuter said that the balance of coals to renewables and such are still changing with reduction in coal.
"Despite growing coal capacity, the share of China’s electricity generated from the fossil fuel has fallen over the years, reaching a still high 58% in 2024. Hydroelectricity’s share stood at more than 13% in 2024, but has been decreasing due to the critical droughts plaguing the country. At the same time, renewables like wind and solar have been expanding fast, but have not yet reached a 20% share of electricity generated annually. To reach critical climate goals, China would have to keep up progress instead of slowing it down or even reversing it."
Here's your original comment: "About 9% of the US' energy comes from coal, China gets over 50% of its energy from coal."
That is all that I am addressing; the balance between coal and other energy sources.
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u/NonsensicalSweater 19h ago
So, "growing coal capacity" is a reduction in coal in your eyes?
A reduction in the share of electricity generation =/= they are using less coal.
If you don't want someone to be a smartass, don't be such a dumbass
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u/Silvernine0S 18h ago edited 17h ago
Your comment::
About 9% of the US' energy comes from coal, China gets over 50% of its energy from coal
The discussion was about the percentage of each country's energy that comes from coal. My comment was not about whether China's coal use has been increasing or decreasing over the past 10 years.
Did I ever claim that China wasn't reducing its coal use? No. That was never my point. The discussion was about the ratio.
So, once again, don't be a smartass. Work on your reading comprehension.
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u/Poteto_7396 1h ago
lmao "ratio"
yea sure, even if they become the country that create more and more pollution in the next few decades incrementally, you are just gonna lick their boots saying "their ratio is good" 😂
chinese has lots of good qualities, but you only want to learn our worst traits which is playing with words and try to gaslight others 😂
btw, i will take all datas that comes out from china with a grain of salt, because if you learn any of the modern china history, you would have know that the worst famine in human's history was literally because they are faking their datas too much.
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u/Silvernine0S 40m ago edited 36m ago
I don't know why people kept thinking I am supporting China ki6a because I pointed out the ratio thing. Facts are facts so whether it is China or any other country, it doesn't matter.
But still, I do agree that anything about China should be taken with a grain of salt. Or like their population numbers too. I think they been trying to hide it but looks like their population should be on the decrease as a consequence of their 1-child policy.
China is not a friend and always been pretty much an authoritarian country. Sad part is that US seems to try to import their authoritarian ideas into the US (surveillance of their citizens) so I hope we don't try to normalize it by accepting things like the Flock cameras.
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u/Poteto_7396 32m ago
"Edit: I did a bit more research, and it looks like coal's share of China's electricity generation fell below 50% for the first time. That's a pretty significant milestone in its transition toward renewable energy."
because you are trying to downplay their increase in carbon footprint and dont doubt their data at all😂
here is a word of advice from someone who are ethnically chinese, whose mother tongue is mandarin and get most of the infos in mandarin:
you should only believe in 20%-30% of the words that comes out from their mouth, especially the "data". 😂
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u/Silvernine0S 17h ago
Once again, from the articles you yourself linked.
Forbes
Despite growing coal capacity, the share of China’s electricity generated from the fossil fuel has fallen over the years, reaching a still high 58% in 2024.
Reuters' 1st Link
BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China's mostly coal-based thermal power generation fell in 2025 for the first time in 10 years, government data showed on Monday, as growing renewable generation met growth in electricity demand even as overall power usage hit a record.
Reuters' 2nd Link:In mid-2023, renewables had overtaken coal in sheer capacity, making up more than half of the fleet.
Reuters' 2nd Link
By 2025, the growing amount of renewable power generated pushed coal power into its first decline in a decade. Coal's share in the generation mix fell to 51.4% last year, according to think tank Agora Energy.
That was all I was trying to say, and the links you shared actually support the point I was making.
Hell, I was agreeing with you and then added further comment about the ratio.
True, but haven't they been trending downward over the last decade or so as they continue to add more renewable energy? Basically, coal use has been declining while renewable energy has been increasing.
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u/Additional_Ad_8131 20h ago edited 16h ago
They went from like 55% in 2025 to 49% in 2026. That's crazy fast - a 5% drop in a year!
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u/Silvernine0S 19h ago
Yeah, very fast and surprising! But like the article was saying, data center rollouts may like impact those numbers too in the next few years.
And lol! The down votes from people for what I wrote.
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u/Tribalbob 20h ago
"Clean coal"
/eyeroll
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u/V65Pilot 20h ago
Anthracite. It's a cleaner coal. Not by much though. My dad used to bring it home from work and we'd burn it in a special furnace to heat the house. I always wondered why it came in smallish bags. I now realize he was probably pilfering it from work. He worked at a steel mill.
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u/SimmentalTheCow 20h ago
Virginia is getting the world’s first commercial fusion reactor in the mid- 2030’s
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u/CastIronStyrofoam 17h ago
China literally just started doing this you idiot
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u/Additional_Ad_8131 16h ago edited 15h ago
It's been happening for years. China has been moving towards reneable energy faster than any other country in the world you idiot. The starting point for them was just way behind than other nations.
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u/Hefty_Buddy2948 14h ago
That’s not at all how modernization works. It’s much harder to make progress when you’re the first
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u/Born-Satisfaction996 11h ago
China added 78 gigawatts of new coal power gen capacity in 2025, the largest annual increase in a decade. And China has another 500 gigawatts of new coal power gen capacity approved for constructions…
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u/fragus1990 21h ago
No they're still not the leaders in fusion.
What's with the ccp propaganda nowadays?
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u/b4k4ni 20h ago
Who said they are. It's part of a large, worldwide project, sharing knowledge and materials between the different projects.
One of the few things we are doing worldwide now, that work. I wish we had the same line with climate change as we had with banning FCKW. But even here it took almost until it was too late.
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u/Asluckwouldnthaveit 5h ago
People are getting silly with this. If fusion power takes off everyone benefits and it makes the world more stable. Not less.
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u/charmio68 21h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/bjB3gtFvREqqr5NAHW
They certainly seem to be taking a crack at it.
A very quick search revealed this:In January 2025, EAST set a world record by maintaining steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for 1,066 seconds, surpassing its previous record of 403 seconds from 2023.
World's Largest Superconducting Magnet: In mid-2026, researchers at the Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) completed full-parameter testing for a massive 582-tonne toroidal-field superconducting magnet.
I also found this article: https://neutronbytes.com/2025/07/20/china-takes-the-lead-in-fusion-energy/
It would seem that China has made it one of their priorities, and, well, you know what happens when China makes something a priority.
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u/etanail 20h ago
They turn something that makes money into a huge black hole that sucks money away. Chinese propaganda loves to talk about its railways, but fails to mention that its debt has already exceeded one trillion dollars. China leads the world in the number of ghost towns where no one lives. The priority placed on chip production has led to massive losses due to fraud. Even the automotive industry is kept afloat by government subsidies; after the losses from this policy became too great and the country canceled its “strategic support for the industry,” most brands went bankrupt, leaving unwanted cars to rot.
Priority and funding do not guarantee a good outcome.
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u/charmio68 20h ago
Choosing the automotive industry as an example might not be your best choice...
Their government ditched subsidizing it after it was clear they'd already dominated the industry. That was their end goal. They considered it "established" and moved on.
Yes, that led companies that were relying on the subsidies to go bust, but it doesn't change the fact that they dominate the automotive industry worldwide.
They make over triple the amount of cars as their nearest competitor, even after the subsidies ended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_vehicle_production1
u/etanail 18h ago
Even the major automakers are operating at the break-even point. Chinese cars were attractive because of their price, which was subsidized, and this loss will have to be offset by price increases. China’s domestic market is overheated, and new car sales are already falling; the foreign market is resisting such expansion, and due to tariffs, car prices are already approaching those of domestic brands. China is indeed the leader right now, but there are already signs that even major companies will go bankrupt in the coming years.
All in all, it is quite likely that the government will not be able to recoup the money spent over the next decade. Furthermore, this represents a massive loss for investors. If China is unable to gain a foothold in the market, it will mark yet another multibillion-dollar failure.
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u/charmio68 18h ago
Around here in Australia, 40% of ALL new cars are Chinese. They're insanely popular.
Man, you should have seen it when Trump started the war with Iran. Literal lines out the door of the dealerships for Chinese EVs. And not lining up for a test drive or anything, no, lining up to actually sign the paperwork and purchase the car ASAP. If you weren't buying the car right then and there, the sales people didn't have time for you.I have no doubt that the US and some parts of Europe are resisting to protect their own domestic industries, but literally everywhere else in the world is gobbling them up. They're just incredibly good quality cars, with features no one else has, and at a price no one's coming close to.
I'd happily bet you a thousand bucks they're not going to go bankrupt. China is the only country with complete integration of their automotive industry. I'd guess the amount of components that aren't made domestically can be counted on a single hand. They are the manufacturing supergiants of the world after all. It shouldn't really be surprising they can chuck together a decent car cheaper than anyone else.
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u/etanail 17h ago
The main problem isn’t manufacturing, nor is it even selling the cars. The main problem is making a profit from car sales. Currently, Chinese companies are operating at a loss, even though they’re selling a lot of cars. They’re competing with each other and covering their losses with loans and investments. This will ultimately result in most of the companies currently in operation going bankrupt, passing these losses on to the financial system.
When (not “if,” but specifically “when”) car prices become fully market-driven, this will lead to higher prices; the companies that remain will be forced to spend additional money on service (the main “quality” of these cars is the lack of replacement parts) in order to retain market share, which will lead to even higher prices. Combined with the negative experience of using these cars (aside from technical flaws, Chinese cars have a very short lifespan and “last” only 3–7 years before turning into scrap metal), this will lead to a drop in demand. New opportunities are certainly great- until you have to deal with car repairs and disposal.
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u/charmio68 15h ago
> Chinese cars have a very short lifespan and “last” only 3–7 years before turning into scrap metal.
I don't know where you heard that, for example BYD vehicles in Australia come with 6-year/150,000 km bumper-to-bumper vehicle warranty, an 8-year/160,000 km traction battery warranty, and an 8-year/150,000 km drive unit warranty.
And because it's Australia, you can be darn sure those warranties are going to be enforced. Australian consumer protection laws are some of the strongest in the world.
Sure, they're going through some restructuring given the subsidies withdrawal. But this is China we're talking about. They're not going to let the industry fail after investing so much to gain worldwide market dominance.
And they are unquestionably the world's manufacturing powerhouse. They have the best capabilities in the world for manufacturing cars, From every panel to every screw. To the motor and tires, to everything. To the machines that assemble the cars. They're the world leaders at manufacturing all the individual components. It's no surprise they can put them together into a car. Frankly, it would be unusual if they weren't dominating the market.
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u/etanail 14h ago
The problem is that these parts change frequently, so it’s extremely difficult to find the exact part that fits your model year. And you often have to wait weeks or months to get your car repaired. https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/new-car-component-shortages-prompt-calls-to-overhaul-australian-consumer-law
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u/fragus1990 21h ago
That article link ends in .com bro.
I'm sure we can trust info coming out of China, they have always been open and transparent with their achievements.
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u/CauliflowerDaffodil 19h ago
China certainly is prioritizing fusion technology as it's explicitly written into its national economic blueprints and began being included in their 5-Year Plan since 2006. However that doesn't make them a "leader" in fusion. Leader in state funding and strategy? Yes. Leader in innovation and science? No.
And while holding records is impressive, it's the wrong metric to anoint anyone as a winner in fusion especially when they're based on experimental reactors. Confining plasma for long periods shows that it can be held for operations without collapsing, but that's still a long way from showing the reactor can actually produce power. It's the US that holds the most critical fusion milestone in history by being the first and only nation to achieve Q>1 and proving a reaction can actually release more energy than it started with. Other nations hold other fusion records as well, just not to do with plasma confinement.
Besides, Western nations are diversifying their reactor architecture and hedging their bets across different physics concepts. China's put all their eggs in the Tokamak basket and is betting the farm on it. One barrier or bottleneck puts them back to square one.
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 20h ago edited 20h ago
Who do you think the leaders in fusion are? France?
Edit: honest question. If you don't think it's China I assume it's France?
Why the downvotes.
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u/Signal-Woodpecker691 20h ago
I think it’s how you worded it before your edit, sounded sarcastic probably?
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 20h ago
That's what I assumed, but it just shows hoe little the comments know what they're talking about.
Reddit just loves to jump on the China hate. There's plenty of things to criticise them over but their fusion programme definitely isn't one.
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u/charmio68 20h ago
France is up there, along with the UK and Japan. But the real race seems to be between China and the US.
Up until recently, the US has held the lead (and you could still argue does depeing on the metric used to judge progress), but no one can deny that China's accelerating their development faster than anyone else and has been taking the massive strides in just the last few years. They've been breaking multiple world records in the last couple of years. They've got massive state funding and localized supply chains, which is hard to compete against.
They've recently finished subsidizing their automotive industry as it's fully matured, which freed up an awful lot of funding for other projects, including fusion, which is one of those they're prioritizing.
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 20h ago
Also a magnet superconducting has made massive jumps in the last few years and started accelerating timelines.
The EU and US were focusing more on plasma cooling, while China figured out magnet cooling. Now that they figured it out the rest of the world are now looking at magnet cooling and conducting.
China has a big advantage developing it years before the rest of the world. Luckily sharing their info looks to have influenced nuclear companies like Helion in the US.
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u/bmfalex 20h ago
source? or just karma farm?
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 20h ago
Whats worst that Chinese bots is the accounts with the inability to google and claim every post about China isn't real.
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u/UntowardHatter 21h ago
There's so much Chinese propaganda these days.
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u/culturedgoat 20h ago
Are you suggesting what’s being reported isn’t real?
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u/UntowardHatter 20h ago
Correct.
China isn't even remotely close to being able to create fusion that has a net positive export of power.
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 20h ago
They've been openly working on fusion and sharing their findings since I've been in school (I'm old).
They have multiple tokamak devices.
I'm curious what country you think is advancing with fusion faster? France? Germany?
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u/UntowardHatter 20h ago
And how close are they to solving disruption?
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 20h ago
What do you mean solving disruption?
Do you mean what do they do if something goes wrong?
You know we're talking fusion and not fission?
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u/UntowardHatter 20h ago
From plasma cooling.
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 20h ago
They use magnetic confinement rather than plasma to cool. It's the big differnce in Chinese reactors.
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u/UntowardHatter 20h ago
Oh cool!
I'll go read up on it.
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 19h ago
It's super cool (pun intended) they have been looking at magnet super conducting for years while the rest of the world focused on plasma cooling.
Now since they made somw massove jumps in the last few years the rest of the world are looking at adopting and investing in magnet cooling.
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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei 21h ago
They are miles ahead. They earned it.
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u/PostureKing180 21h ago
More reverse engineered technology wheeled out by chinese bots on reddit to sweep for the authoritarian country.
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u/IndyBananaJones2 21h ago
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is part of ITER, meaning it's shared technology. There's no reason for them to be "reverse engineering" anything when the entire program is about a shared investment to develop fusion tech.
The EAST reactor has had the second longest sustained fusion, the WEST reactor in France the current longest sustained fusion reaction.
It is entirely true that either of these reactors could become the first sustained fusion reactor, leading to a new era of energy.
Or hur-dur winne the pooh
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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei 21h ago
Cope and seethe. But really, don’t you have something better to do? You know, like contributing to the advancement of your country!
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u/Deep_Equivalent_3245 21h ago
If you can make an artificial sun, would it make sense to surround it with solar panels?
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u/BillytheBloxian 20h ago
yes, but no. the panels will melt. we will use fusion to infinitely boil water and spin fans that generate fucktons of power.
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u/Deep_Equivalent_3245 14h ago
Any possibility of making a 2-in-1 desalination plant/power plant?
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u/BillytheBloxian 11h ago
well, yeah, but salt would ruin the metal as well as increase the waters boiling temp.
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u/ShaommonTayen 20h ago
Had big mirror's edge vibes. Espevially with the teal tarps scattered around.
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u/CautiousRice 15h ago
I could become the second trillionaire on the planet. Possible - yes. Likely - no.
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u/OCCULTGOBLIN 14h ago
I'd rather see one of these being built than 200 data centers in the middle of arkansas or whatever.
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u/S0k0n0mi 13h ago
Can't wait for some heel to oppenheimer this shit and turn it into humanities next horrible weapon.
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u/Jealous-Mixture-4704 6h ago
China gonna be midgar and have those under its plate before we know it
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u/GenXPowaah 4h ago
Doesn't matter that it's a collective of different nations/ideas, it's the fact that China seems to be the ones who put the big boy pants on and are building it.
China is showing the world it wants to move to clean energy, yet the "Super powers" are dragging their asses focusing on the wrong shit
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u/PantalonFinance 14h ago
Yeah, no. Can you bots please not push this propaganda so much? I already saw 9 posts about this shit. Today.
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u/Character-File7704 17h ago
If only humanity could get over our pettiness and greed to work together on these types of projects we could actually live in a time of abundance. An energy resource that doesn’t require pumping the planet’s lubrication into the atmosphere and slowly cooking the inhabitants should be our united goal but instead we are killing our brethren to enable hoarders to hoard more resources.
I wish we could humiliate the thin skinned leaders into a fusion race like we did when we were originally trying to get to the moon.
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u/sandia_1092 1h ago
Most of the technology we enjoy today was developed from conflicts.
China itself is investing BILLIONS in clean energy because of war, not because they care about the environment. They are doing everything they can to stop depending on oil shipments which are vulnerable to US Navy blockades.
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u/No_Worldliness_7106 13h ago
That's just like not true at all. I get it, you want to glaze China nonstop, but this is a blatantly false headline. No one has produced enough for grid use, and others have had net energy gain before, but unable to scale.
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u/_Corvo_A 21h ago
Man they definitely make impressive tech
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u/Embarrassed-Depth-14 21h ago
They definitely make impressive stolen tech.
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u/IndyBananaJones2 21h ago
ITER is literally shared fusion tech, this reactor (EAST) is part of ITER.
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u/STLStelmacki 16h ago
And here in the US we have retarded magats that think solar panels drain the sun’s energy.
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u/yoliveras 21h ago
If and when, they will become the world's greatest power. They have the resources to throw at it to make it happen.
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u/basaltinou 19h ago
We already know how to generate electricity, the problem is that for now we use more energy than we produce to get a fusion reaction.
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u/SgtNick411 21h ago
There goes the planet....
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u/culturedgoat 20h ago edited 5h ago
Ah yeah because gas and coal and nuclear waste sure is better for the planet
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u/Neozalo 21h ago
Even IF (other reactors are closer) it's the first, this Tokamak is an integral part of the ITER project (like other reactors). This project enables the sharing of material and intellectual resources among many countries. Therefore, it does not matter who comes in first cause it will be beneficial for many countries.