There are a couple of deuterium-tritium fusion power plant construction project deals signed already- Which is amazing as working prototypes with net positive ELECTRICAL energy generated from their thermal fusion output vs. grid electrical energy inputs to achieve that fusion have not yet been seen.
Lots of claims for plasma produced, contained, temperatures reached, in 2022 the US national ignition facility claimed their thermal energy produced from fusion as being greater than energy used to cause the fusion. But nobody has made steam and spun a turbine connected to a generator and proved they can generate more electrical output than the massive inputs used by the LASERS, containment magnets and other equipment.
"Fusion power has been '10 years away' for decades"?
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The below link has some pretty graphs, drawn and interpreted to show commercial thermonuclear electric power will be connected to the grid quite shortly. The graphics remind me of a RAND company study with similar graphs proving that the USA would win the Vietnamese war in a year or two.
As always, the map isn't the territory and your results may vary. Consult your physicist if symptoms don't improve.
It's so crazy how almost every American and all American elected officials think the US is the most technically advanced world power and China and others are simply stealing our ideas. It's been over for American technology and innovation for two to three decades. If anyone is watching the war in Ukraine you've seen how our important technology - that which is suppose to keep us secure from outside enemies - is virtually useless. If that technology is crap then everything else is too, because the MIC sucks up our best minds with its ever-rising budgets.
Danny Haiphong and Ben Norton had a good discussion on just how dar beyond Asia we are and how fruitless sanctions, tariffs, and taxes are in the competition.
Thanks for this incredibly informative article. Is there a reason you don't want to disclose your identity? I'd love to share your work, but would like to know who you are. :)
Excellent article packed with fascinating and important information.
(i saw 2 errors both at the end of paragraphs, where a sentence starts with a couple of words then nothing and onto the next paragraph. It didn’t ruin my reading experience though, so no biggie.)
Great read! It also helps that China has placed restrictions on some rare earth metals used for semiconductors late last year. This specifically targets the technology sector and AI of the USA. When will this bubble pop?
It’s early but as you note with semiconductors solar panels EVs and Byte dance the open source commercialization of the technology takes it out of the realm of the billionaire oligarchs and their prison industrial state lavender perversions and nuclear pretensions, itself deep sixed by solar plus batteries five years ago. Big by Matt Stoller here on Substack has an article on deepseek from the monopoly angle alluding to the competition between the Pentagon and China’s national security state.
So often you hear individual facts about some topic in the news, but there's no clear picture of what's happening. Thank-you for writing this excellent article.
First it was the do it for the poor scam, then it was the limited resources scam, then they hit the mother lode with the climate scam and as a result they thought they could swoop in and control the populations globally first using Maoist Cultural revolutionary style tactics and then through post feudal totalitarian rule. Now it’s the AI scam needing twice the energy to run it and no one cares now about using nuclear power plants while supposedly needing half a trillion when China just did it for less than 5 million as they continue to build coal plants? I hope Trump doesn’t get taken in too far by these cash sucking oligarchs.
I'm more of a perplexity user (since Google is absolutely useless now) but I like that deepseek is able to pull from 50 sources at once. Using both helps get a wide range of relevant results
I did almost no editing on this one as I really wanted to get the ideas out on paper while I still had them in mind. Hope it's legible.
Sam Altman may be investigating nuclear FUSION, we already have nuclear fission powerplants.
Thanks for catching the typo. I saw he also promised to deliver a fusion power plant by 2028 😂
@CriticalResist (Crit)
There are a couple of deuterium-tritium fusion power plant construction project deals signed already- Which is amazing as working prototypes with net positive ELECTRICAL energy generated from their thermal fusion output vs. grid electrical energy inputs to achieve that fusion have not yet been seen.
Lots of claims for plasma produced, contained, temperatures reached, in 2022 the US national ignition facility claimed their thermal energy produced from fusion as being greater than energy used to cause the fusion. But nobody has made steam and spun a turbine connected to a generator and proved they can generate more electrical output than the massive inputs used by the LASERS, containment magnets and other equipment.
I worked on the plasma diffusion equation as a physics student in 1973. We have a long way to go. Not in their lifetime.
@Q10
"Fusion power has been '10 years away' for decades"?
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The below link has some pretty graphs, drawn and interpreted to show commercial thermonuclear electric power will be connected to the grid quite shortly. The graphics remind me of a RAND company study with similar graphs proving that the USA would win the Vietnamese war in a year or two.
As always, the map isn't the territory and your results may vary. Consult your physicist if symptoms don't improve.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10894-023-00361-z
Thanks for the feedback, that's actually good to hear! Sometimes I wonder if I only make sense to myself 😵💫
Excellent piece thank you so much for the information!
Thank you for reading!
China keeps looking better and better. Why can't we learn from them instead of opposing them at every turn?
It's so crazy how almost every American and all American elected officials think the US is the most technically advanced world power and China and others are simply stealing our ideas. It's been over for American technology and innovation for two to three decades. If anyone is watching the war in Ukraine you've seen how our important technology - that which is suppose to keep us secure from outside enemies - is virtually useless. If that technology is crap then everything else is too, because the MIC sucks up our best minds with its ever-rising budgets.
Danny Haiphong and Ben Norton had a good discussion on just how dar beyond Asia we are and how fruitless sanctions, tariffs, and taxes are in the competition.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chroniclesofhaiphong/p/live-with-ben-norton-tonight-jan
Thanks for this incredibly informative article. Is there a reason you don't want to disclose your identity? I'd love to share your work, but would like to know who you are. :)
Hi Pam, I explain everything in my about page 😁 https://criticalresist.substack.com/about
Brilliant......saw one error BUT can't find it now!
Thank you Jenny! I finally did an editing pass just earlier so that's why you might not be able to find it now.
I figured you might have done. Laughing
GO CHINA GO!!
West need to be hard shaken and wake up looking at its mirror, seeing the brutal criminal face it has since the fake "LIberation" by US/UK in 1944.
Excellent article packed with fascinating and important information.
(i saw 2 errors both at the end of paragraphs, where a sentence starts with a couple of words then nothing and onto the next paragraph. It didn’t ruin my reading experience though, so no biggie.)
Thank you J-Pat! I just took care of those two dangly sentences
np, glad to help. dangly sentences, lol i just learned some new terminology, thanks again.
Great read! It also helps that China has placed restrictions on some rare earth metals used for semiconductors late last year. This specifically targets the technology sector and AI of the USA. When will this bubble pop?
Nice article. I’ll be keeping an eye on this feed!
Trump is stuck on stupid. Believing his Money Empire can simply demonize his targets with sanctions, tariffs and Militarism to keep them down.
Little Rocket Man is ruling over a dying Empire.
It’s early but as you note with semiconductors solar panels EVs and Byte dance the open source commercialization of the technology takes it out of the realm of the billionaire oligarchs and their prison industrial state lavender perversions and nuclear pretensions, itself deep sixed by solar plus batteries five years ago. Big by Matt Stoller here on Substack has an article on deepseek from the monopoly angle alluding to the competition between the Pentagon and China’s national security state.
So often you hear individual facts about some topic in the news, but there's no clear picture of what's happening. Thank-you for writing this excellent article.
Thanks for reading Kathy, and I completely agree with your assessment!
Thank you so much for this writing. I have no knowledge of this tech world, I'm grateful for the concise facts, thanks again.
First it was the do it for the poor scam, then it was the limited resources scam, then they hit the mother lode with the climate scam and as a result they thought they could swoop in and control the populations globally first using Maoist Cultural revolutionary style tactics and then through post feudal totalitarian rule. Now it’s the AI scam needing twice the energy to run it and no one cares now about using nuclear power plants while supposedly needing half a trillion when China just did it for less than 5 million as they continue to build coal plants? I hope Trump doesn’t get taken in too far by these cash sucking oligarchs.
I'm more of a perplexity user (since Google is absolutely useless now) but I like that deepseek is able to pull from 50 sources at once. Using both helps get a wide range of relevant results