15 min would be huge, it’s going to be really interesting to see what this all looks like in a few years. Honestly, China cracking fusion would be the real new Sputnik moment for the world.
The article says they, and another facility in France, achieved over 1000 seconds last year. I dunno, we’ve been told we’re getting close to fusion power for about 70 years, now. I’m not optimistic.
If you look at the amount of funding fusion has been receiving up to now, it’s not really surprising that not much progress has happened. If China ends up devoting resources towards making it happen at state level, that’s a whole different game.
I saw an article claiming north of 15 minutes of fusion at CAS - https://www.the-independent.com/tech/nuclear-fusion-china-artificial-sun-b2896015.html - admittedly not a scholarly article.
15 min would be huge, it’s going to be really interesting to see what this all looks like in a few years. Honestly, China cracking fusion would be the real new Sputnik moment for the world.
The article says they, and another facility in France, achieved over 1000 seconds last year. I dunno, we’ve been told we’re getting close to fusion power for about 70 years, now. I’m not optimistic.
If you look at the amount of funding fusion has been receiving up to now, it’s not really surprising that not much progress has happened. If China ends up devoting resources towards making it happen at state level, that’s a whole different game.