Just like that China is making one of America’s biggest advantages, it’s huge fossil fuel reserves, irrelevant. I don’t think it can be stated enough how big of a geopolitical game changer these advances in renewable energy are.
And the funny part is that the US managed to remind everyone why it’s so fucking important to move off fossil fuels by fucking up global energy supply.
china’s going to invent the first method to somehow trap photons in some sort of photonic turbine and free us from the demon that is steam forever
https://knowledge.energyinst.org/new-energy-world/article?id=139989
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has brought online the world’s first commercial supercritical CO2 power generator, it has been reported.
The generator, which uses [supercritical] CO2 instead of steam to transfer heat, has been connected to the grid from a steel production plant in China’s south-western province of Guizhou to produce electricity from waste heat, the South China Morning Post has reported.
I absolutely love High Temperature Gas Reactors. The sheer ingenuity in the various designs is always something impressive and clever. I’ll always have a favorite in Pebble Bed fuels, but all the HTRs are just fascinating to learn about.
mfw that’s what solar power is anyway
Great news, unlimited power from the sun for consumers. Bad news, unlimited power from the sun to run AI Data Centers hovering up all our data.
