Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/climate/china-us-fusion-energy.html?smid%3Dnytcore-ios-share

by ChuckGallagher57

13 comments

  1. “CLEAN” is disingenuous since it will have plenty of radioactive waste, which does not have a permanent solution in the U.S.
    It will also perpetuate the energy sector’s monopoly on the power and distribution.
    Solar is a much better solution for powering the large majority of housing and businesses.

  2. It exists and is always 20 years away, no matter when you ask.

  3. A functional government will always be ahead of other countries that is controlled by billionaires. Trump pushed back green energy investment by decades with all his cuts.

  4. And the greed and shortsightedness of our politicians and America’s allegiance to the petroleum industry will keep the US well behind in the energy race. 

  5. In Chinese they say:
    “Big or no big, there is no try”
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  6. When did China become a bunch of liberal snowflakes? Everyone know if you are not burning coal or oil you are a loser.

  7. Fusion has the same main problem as fission: Cost. I understand a lot people think that fusion will somehow save us, but there is just no way you can make cheaper energy from fusion, than from solar+batteries and some wind here and there.

    There is an old article from 2012 [here](https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/why-fusion-will-never-happen/). After all these years it still holds truths. There is just no way, investing into fusion is worth the money.

  9. If state run media doesn’t tell me how much we are winning how ever am I supposed to find out?!?

  10. China is one of, if not the most polluted place in the world.

  13. So there is a rather large elephant in the room that no one mentions. Tritium is priced currently around $30k per GRAM. One 600 MW fusion power plant would use the entire US domestic supply of Tritium. A whole new supply chain will need to be developed to fuel theseplants when they do actually start to produce power. On a yearly basis, they’ll have to replace their vacuum vessels. This is not trivial. Robotic cutting and welding will be needed to handle the vessel swap out.
    There really is “no free lunch” or panacea.

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