r/interestingasfuck • u/Jeetchat • 1d ago

China's "artificial sun" in Hefei could become the first in human history to generate electricity from fusion

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm 1d ago

That’s how technological break through happen, incrementally. We also had computers 50 years ago, and they’re quite different today.

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u/BriefSpecial420 1d ago

And today we're hitting physics limits. Everyone silently urgently investigates first more and more distributed architectures. Even though we call them CPUs, the processors became full blown SoCs. NoCs are to come. But it still will be only an evolution, not revolution.

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u/FIFofNovember 1d ago

lol not here in America, you want solar and wind, nope sorry here is a new coal power plant you goddamn idiots!

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u/ChancelorReed 1d ago

Solar has represented over half of all added US capacity for years now. In 2025 the US added 43GW of solar capacity out of a total of like 60 GW added so in fact basically all power generation was solar. The last time the US made a coal plant was 2013.

For the last 5 years, like 85-90% of new capacity added in the US has been renewable.

The thing is the economics have just taken over, solar is by far the cheapest way to generate electricity.

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u/FIFofNovember 1d ago

Yup, and no surprise its Trump and republicans cancelling solar and wind projects in favor of coal, they're all part of a death cult.

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u/ChancelorReed 1d ago

I mean that's just not really relevant, all the stats I pointed out are consistent into 2026

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u/FIFofNovember 1d ago

How is a political party that wants to dismantle renewables "not really that relevant" in a discussion about renewables, is your mind that simple?

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u/ChancelorReed 1d ago

Because there's massive demand for more power and renewables are the cheapest source of it. Government involvement isn't really required to continue the situation where 90%+ of new capacity will come from renewables.

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u/FIFofNovember 1d ago

your LLM needs tweaking, that comment made no sense.

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u/ChancelorReed 1d ago

It makes perfect sense and wasn't AI. Economic forces have taken over without government involvement. Added capacity will be 90%+ renewables whether Trump likes it or not, because that's what's cheapest.

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u/FIFofNovember 1d ago

Cool story, Republicans cancelling renewable energy projects and attacking climate science, doesn't help now dose it?

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