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China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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What frustrates me is that China is indeed leading so much technological development on energy, but the amount of coal being burnt is just not budging... Please, China. Make the transition already.
That's because 90% of these articles about their technological breakthroughs are bullsht.
It's a bit two sided I believe. The energy demand is increasing, so there's indeed more coal being burnt.
But at the same time, the share of clean energy sources compared to coal is also getting bigger and bigger.
So it's not all bad. Mostly seems the demand for energy is growing too fast to decently transition, let's hope they can catch up and get rid of coal as soon as possible.
Yeah, I hope that the renewables will continue exponentially... I agree that the growing share of renewables in the mix is awesome, but in the end what matters is each ton of CO2 emitted. And we're not going in the right direction :(