America's nightmare: China is moving at lightning speed to control the future
smh.com.auThe sad thing is that activists from the 60s and 70s crippled the nuclear energy industry, which is the only real way to stop climate change. We would probably be dominating this industry by now and have a fraction of the CO2 outputs.
If an 'environmental activist' isn't supporting nuclear energy, I can't take them seriously and it's most likely just a political group and has nothing to do with actually saving the planet.
People are scare of nuclear energy. Just look at Fukushima and Cernobil. People shouldn't ignore that. It is easy to talk how great and clean nuclear energy is. Yes, it is. And then something happen next to your home. I wish that nothing like Fukushima and Cernobil every happen. It was really bad PR for nuclear energy. We need more secure nuclear energy. I do hope that SMR(small modular reactor) don't make any ecological catastrophe.
People are scared of all kinds of things. Is it good management to accept that as a reason to paralyze most of the world? (And no, spending all effort on pushing one hobby and stopping the rest doesn't help. It goes exactly in the direction of paralyzing the world. Like "SMR". It wouldn't even solve anything: sooner or later an SMR "NUCLEAR!!!" device will have an accident and then what?
> People are scare of nuclear energy. Just look at Fukushima and Cernobil.
Looking... and? Compare those to the victims in Bhopal for example.
Safety studies are available and they place nuclear as one of the safest if not the safest energy sources on a TWh basis. Depending how you look at it, nuclear is safer than wind and even solar [1]
With that said, it could be even safer if we focused on the safety of nuclear rather than on killing it.
I've seen America's slowing over the last few decades and expected it to continue. I did not expect the rate to 10x because of a few people. Wow. Not a great time to be an American
This is about fusion, and not all the other ways China is moving at lightning speed compared with the US.
Is the Chinese researcher credible? It sounds a bit like a sales pitch from the US fusion industry.
"Neo-China arrives from the future." — Nick Land
Is this a good time to start learning Mandarin?
Pattern to watch for: Accounts posting pro-China stories which haven't made any other submissions since 2022 and now all of the sudden are posting again. I've seen 7 or 8 pro-China posts with accounts following this exact pattern in the last week.
As opposed to us moving as fast as we can to control the future?
If they really can outpace us, good luck to 'em. We Americans pride ourselves on our magnanimity in dispensing tech goodies to the world. Maybe we can get the benefit of somebody else's work for a while. And maybe it'll even take a little heat off of us, which we attract because of the way we've controlled the world.
That's... a very unflattering picture of Trump, and very photogenic picture of Xi. From an Australian paper. What a time to be a live.
I'd suggest that oligarch-owned US media often uses the most flattering image of Trump, rather than this being an unflattering choice. He is The President, and we've come to respect presidents no matter what.