Re: OT: Chinese tokamak

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:50:40 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:41:35 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:49:30 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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The US led on nuclear fusion for decades.
Now China is in position to win the race:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/climate/nuclear-fusion-clean-energy-china-us/index.html
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China's EAST tokamak in Hefei held plasma stable at 70 million degrees Celsius
- five times hotter than the core of the sun - for more than 17 minutes,
a world record and an objectively astonishing breakthrough.

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Sounds expensive and useless, like the Chinese moon landings.

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Feed the kids first.

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Once they have Mars they will ask for you 'merrican tourists to pay in Chinese currency and feed their kids
in the Martian settlements with stuff they import from Russia.
By that time chances are likely 'merrica's You Ash of AAAAh will no longer be,...
just a few settlements...grasshuts, wigwams, greens ruling.
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China is not doing bad feeding and housing their people,
US homelesness and poverty is
https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/china-moves-dominate-world-food-supply-food-power

The real concept there is not "food", it's "dominate."

https://www.wfp.org/countries/china

Communism always evolves to rule by psychopathic thugs.

A lot of the US homeless problem is caused by Chinese drugs. By
design.