r/Damnthatsinteresting 4d ago

Video Fascinating growth made by China!

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u/CosmicCreeperz 4d ago

State of the art buildings, lighting, and electric cars… mostly still powered by coal. 🙄

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u/Xepobot 4d ago

But they working on the fusion reactor, and already making far more strides. The power of the Sun is going to be in their hands soon.

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u/Best_Ad7046 4d ago

Brother what? You have to be either a bot or just not understand this stuff. It took southern company and friends 14 years to build a fission reactor whose technology was understood completely with existing equipment. If you mean soon like on a geological scale soon, sure, but we are decades away from turning a fusion reactor on. We are a factor of 10 away from having them be efficient inside of a laboratory let alone a functional outputting reactor.

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u/Radiskull97 4d ago

Something they are doing that's way more realistic is making great strides in battery technology so they can utilize solar power from their massive dessert in the West. They're also investing in nuclear power plant technology they can sell as part of their belt and road initiative