China Outspends the U.S. on Fusion in the Race for Energy’s Holy Grail – China wants to dominate commercial fusion, a long-dreamed-of clean energy source that is attracting new investment
https://archive.is/2024.07.08-030220/https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-us-fusion-race-4452d3be
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>A high-tech race is under way between the U.S. and China as both countries chase [an elusive energy source](https://archive.is/o/kYScT/https://www.wsj.com/articles/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-what-to-know-11670976073): fusion.
> China is outspending the U.S., completing a massive fusion technology campus and launching a national fusion consortium that includes some of its largest industrial companies.
>Crews in China work in three shifts, essentially around the clock, to complete fusion projects. And the Asian superpower has 10 times as many Ph.D.s in fusion science and engineering as the U.S.
>The result is an increasing worry among American officials and scientists that an early U.S. lead is slipping away.
>JP Allain, who heads the Department of Energy’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, said China is spending around $1.5 billion a year on fusion, nearly twice the U.S. government’s fusion budget. What’s more, China appears to be following a program similar to the road map that hundreds of U.S. fusion scientists and engineers first published in 2020 in hopes of making commercial fusion energy.
>“They’re building our long-range plan,” Allain said. “That’s very frustrating, as you can imagine.”
How would running a fusion reactor ever be more ideal than just collecting fusion energy with fusion panels?
I think you all got so caught up with the idea of Fusion being the SAVOUR of humanity for so long that you can’t see the forest for the trees. Running a fusion reactor is not likely to EVER get cheaper than solar panels and batteries.
Well, at least we know where the money from harvesting organs from living people (political dissidents) is going. Good luck selling energy, china, when Mordor goes down, you will too for being their accomplice.
This is good news, competition is normally good for humanity. Nuclear fusion will solve so many problems, more than it will create. Next let them compete on a cure or vaccine for cancer, heart disease, food scarcity, etc.
is there anything in which china is not leading against us?
I wonder how much money has gone into the whole fusion reactor development in total worldwide..