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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

China: Trying to make the world a better place.

America: Trying to monetize the rot.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

God China is winning so much right now

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

没有共产党,就没有新中国

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thank you!!! I love that song!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

hey i actually read this!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

headlines that could be very different with a single letter change

volcel-kamala

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

American science just can't compare baby-matt

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking "artificial son"

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Fuck yeah

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Tokamak is a Soviet word USSR fidel-salute-big

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

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

nah that sounds cool too

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 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!!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Technically they're already nuking themselves by building this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Artificial sin kelly

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I achieved a discharge this morning to zero fan-fare

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile in American science news

[–] [email protected] 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"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 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

[–] [email protected] 11 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

[–] [email protected] 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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