if china develops a fusion reactor before the west capitalism is fuckin over lmao
Free energy + desalination + indoor farming = enough food to feed every climate refugee.
I really hope Xi pushes the communism button around 2050. Communism is what we need to avoid climate-change induced WWIII, because capitalism sure isn’t fixing shit.
libs dying in their shitty SpaceXtm space colonies while we’re rebuilding the world
That would enable Africa to be completely independent, right? We could also stop desertification like that, probably.
This experiment is actually part of ITER, but an international effort achieving breakeven fusion would still be cool as hell
energy so cheap that you dont need foreign imports for energy. just give this to every third world nation and capitalism is ruined. im talking a near infinite supply of energy, and the resources to repair the reactor would be relatively common, enough to keep us going for millions of years
this is why nuclear research and nuclear development is so important. humanity cannot sustain civilization and industry forever without it. we will eventually run out of good hydrocarbons, good lithium, and so on. and it takes more energy to create these things than it does to burn it. so without nuclear research, widespread industrial civilization cannot exist forever.
the important thing about fusion is if we get it running, we can put some energy in and get more out of it, which will allow us to create things like lithium without an energy deficit. no other technology allows this level of flexibility. we’re relying on energy from natural processes that formed lithium, hydrocarbons, etc. over the course of thousands or millions of years. but we’d be getting abundant energy quickly. and if we have hundreds of thousands of years to sit around and research, we might even come up with something better without a time crunch that other technologies give us.
simple explanation (very unperfect): https://youtu.be/mZsaaturR6E
longer explanation that is a bit better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPS-epGPJmg
Daily reminder that capitalism never innovated and innovation is a product of public funding.
So how is America going to complete against these sorts of advancements? The “free market” requires the government to innovate and America just doesn’t seem like it’s willing to invest the money
What was that thing about capitalism sowing the seeds of its own destruction? I’m actually feeling optimistic today, it’s wild
“the main impediment to capital is capital” - a theme that repeats over and over in history
Worth noting is that ITER is an international project that has a a fair few US scientists and some governmental support: https://www.ornl.gov/content/us-iter
That said, it could have TONS more. What is we funded it like the F-35?
NASA was created after the US got spooked by Sputnik and that’s the only instance I can think of off hand, but that was in the 1960s where the public had expectations for the state to do things. The state now just throws money at cops and military because the rest of it has been hollowed out.
I think we could see the US crap out some shitty half-privatized monstrosity of a program headed by various fail-sons and fail-daughters of the ruling class, but mostly we’ll probably see the ruling class pump funding into the CIA and other spy orgs to try to sabotage it while, as you said, throwing money at cops to suppress people at home.
I think I saw this in a Spiderman once, so this is clearly stolen tech from the US, checkmate China
the hot knife videos will be legendary
