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NIF is closer to break even than the Chinese fusion work. Supposedly this work from China will be brought into ITER, but I suppose it's they make some real advancement on their own they could pull out of ITER and go it alone.
We are all dead. If their safeguards are anything like those over the virology lab only a matter of time.
That twitter of a sun launching is fake. That’s not how the reactor works. But the first headline is real and they were successful with the fusion reactor.
Yes, unfettered power can accomplish works of good. I hope we can see the bigger picture about liberal vs illiberal democracy, however.
I would say a next step in the industrial revolution. If we can get one to work it will presumably solve global warming as there will be very limited need for coal, natural gas, and oil. The implications are certainly intriguing if it can be made practical.
Everyone everywhere, save for some of the rulers whose countries' economies depend on fossil fuel extraction, will want workable fusion. The potential for changing the global economy is almost unimaginable.
By weaponized do you mean turned into an actual weapon or do you mean used as leverage against other countries?
I meant the former but I hadn't considered the latter and that's a pretty interesting thought. How would you see fusion being used as leverage in foreign relations?
That unlimited cheap labor is drying up.
You seem to be assuming a social welfare state that "cares" about and for the elderly. I am not sanguineous that Chinese leadership feels the same way about their infirm, unless it's their own leadership's skin.
I don't know if you can build something worse than our current Fusion weapons, thermonuclear weapons. But if you have enough electricity easily and cheaply provided lasers and rail guns become more feasible. Probably the best thing is you're just he's so much richer you can buy and reaerch better things. Battery technology becomes the next hurtle to overcome unless a fusion reactor would scale down to Supply Power to vehicles.
