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[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 64 points 2 months ago

China is the dream; they're like one of the few countries and only super power that's actually working towards the betterment of humanity

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 48 points 2 months ago

China: Trying to make the world a better place.

America: Trying to monetize the rot.

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

God China is winning so much right now

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

没有共产党,就没有新中国

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago
[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

Without the Communist Party, there would have been no New China

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Thank you!!! I love that song!

[-] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

This reminds me, the Korean version of this song goes so hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5pAHYEC6Q

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

hey i actually read this!

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago

headlines that could be very different with a single letter change

volcel-kamala

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

American science just can't compare baby-matt

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago
[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

I was thinking "artificial son"

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fuck yeah

Do we have to call it an "artificial sun"? Because that's... weirdly sinister. And "tokamak" or "plasma reactor" sound badass already.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago

tokamak = hotboxing your car in the McDonald's drive thru line

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago

Tokamak is a Soviet word USSR fidel-salute-big

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Do we have to call it an "artificial sun"? Because that's... weirdly sinister.

nah that sounds cool too

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago

Wow we need to nuke china RIGHT NOW and destroy this.

[-] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

The sinister chinese are causing global warming by creating a second sun, don't they know it's dang hot enough!!

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Technically they're already nuking themselves by building this.

[-] Deinonychus@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Artificial sin kelly

[-] Mickmacduffin@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

I achieved a discharge this morning to zero fan-fare

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Looking at the stark difference between contemporary Chinese and American science, it’s basically insane to think America not even that long ago was the scientific center of the world.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile in American science news

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago
[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Highest amount of bullshit I've ever read, American scientists can be such jokes sometimes.

It all went downhill when we started accepting "celebrity scientists"

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

The article doesn't say what the Q value is. I'm assuming it's below 1.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

I'd imagine, but I found this interesting:

Currently the maximum Q value achieved by humans is 1.53.

Had no idea someone had managed to get more energy out of a fusion device than they put in. Must have been unable to sustain it for any significant length of time, but still seems important.

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

The Q=1.53 was done at the National Ignition Facility using inertial confinement fusion, which is significant for plasma research (and probably bombs), but can't be used to generate power.

[-] Biggay@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

It was big news I want to say about a year ago when a team first published that they had done it

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also this is just plasma gain, not whole system gain. To have a commercially viable reactor your probably need Q total > 10 at least. No system build so far even has a Q total of 1

[-] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

It was the NIF two years ago but it's also not going to be generating power ever, it was just a demonstration/proof of concept.

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago
[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Yes, and cold fusion is 10 years away. They are not going to manage that in 5 years.

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