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

Only a radwife will help me build communism.

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

Is it for the generating power for the genshin AI servers?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wanted to learn more and... "CNN did not receive a reply from China’s National Energy Administration when asked whether state-funded fusion research had copied or been inspired by US designs."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago

Lmao insane that they asked this in this context

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Saying "nuclear reactor" when they mean FUSION is kinda burying the lede. Is it energy positive?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 40 minutes ago

Very very very unlikely? We would have probably heard about it if it was

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

No fucking way. No actual fucking way. Nuclear fusion, unlimited clean energy, the potential to save the planet from climate disaster, made possible through the power of gamers gambling on big titty anime girls there is just no fucking way this is reality.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Yes a q value of 1.53 and a goal of 10 by 2030 which is when it'll be commercially viable. Its already fantastic but they are currently working on reducing the cost of building a tokamak and increasing yields

Everyone has been naysaying to me about this for years on here but my finger is on the pulse, the Chinese are gonna do it some-controversy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

Everyone has been naysaying to me about this for years on here but my finger is on the pulse, the Chinese are gonna do it

Reminds me of that game where you play as a post-revolutionary government trying to reverse climate change. It lets you research fusion and says there's some percent chance of getting it done, but it's actually coded to never work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

half-earth socialism

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

If anyone's gonna do it its China. They have the most to gain from reducing reliance on oil and gas imports, and they have the money, institutional knowledge, and manpower to do it.

I just think its funny that after all the effort expended on experimental designs over the past few decades it turns out the Tokamak is still the best one. USSR stay posthumously winning.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

i've been obsessively posting about it since this site started. china is going to dominate the world (in a good way) simply by mass producing commercial fusion reactors and selling them to every nation that wants them. and start a fusion fuel economy. it will be a net gain for everyone, unlike the fossil fuel economy.

my more crank prediction is a lot of their unmanned lunar research is part of a broad policy of looking for viable helium-3 sources.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

My prediction is the Americans will nuke everyone out of spite rather than see a human future where capitalism has no more leverage once fusion is viable.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit they say it is. Not, like, sustainable commercial levels, but damn

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It hit a q value of 1.53 which means they got 50% more energy out. Their goal for commercial realization is a q value of 10, which they say will happen by 2030. This is Chinese for earlier than that because they love to set a far off date and achieve it earlier. They said the facility for that will be finished in 2027 so that's when I'd expect the real timeline to start.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Not only is communism making good games, it's also providing clean energy. What's capitalism done besides be covered in shit and racism?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

> making good games

> genshin impact

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

I personally didn't get into it but from what I know it is much better slop than most western slop

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Okay to be fair I've never played it, I just assumed it was good since people sing it's praises around here.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It’s a perfectly nice game smothered under a terrifyingly exploitative business model. If you have trouble with addiction or gambling it’s best to skip it entirely, but if you can safely avoid those elements and like open world fantasy action RPGs then it’s worth a go.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago

It is a predatory gacha game but has above average gameplay

[–] Chronographs 9 points 5 hours ago