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China starts up first fourth-generation nuclear reactor

11 points by freeqaz 3y ago

jalapenos 3y ago
Feels like the West is too busy bickering over nonsense, while China's busy steaming ahead and getting things done. If they weren't being overtly evil at the same time I'd be rooting for them.
- freeqaz 3y ago
  It's funny that hopefully the West will get their sh*t together because of these types of actions. Maybe it'll be a new "Cold War", but instead it would be a "Green War"?
- dontlaugh 3y ago
  Worth considering who told you they’re evil.
  - jalapenos 3y ago
    My eyes I guess. Not like the West are that far off though, and busy "why do they get all the nice things!" closing the gap with them. (And to be clear to the pearl clutchers: "China" is referring to the PRC here)
  - mvdwoord 3y ago
    They tell us this themselves, if you care to listen.
- matthewdgreen 3y ago
  China’s progress in low-carbon energy is one of the few bright spots in a world that is otherwise facing a lot of challenges. It’s pretty embarrassing watching folks in the West fiddle around and debate whether it’s even possible to decarbonize, while China just goes ahead and does it. On the flipside, it’s also hard not to notice that China’s energy revolution (including massive growth in renewables, batteries, EVs, nuclear and coal plant construction) has the incidental effect of making the country massively less reliant on imported energy, especially compared to all of the more Western-allied Asian nations. A less optimistic observation is that this could be less about climate change than it is about positioning China to be resilient to an imminent conflict that threatens global oil supply lines.
freeqaz 3y ago
Related news that I also posted in another thread. China is making plans to build a thorium salt container ship: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3243966/chinese-shipyard-unveils-plans-worlds-first-nuclear-tanker-powered-cutting-edge-molten-salt-reactor https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3243966/chin...

11 points by freeqaz 3y ago

Feels like the West is too busy bickering over nonsense, while China's busy steaming ahead and getting things done. If they weren't being overtly evil at the same time I'd be rooting for them.

freeqaz 3y ago
It's funny that hopefully the West will get their sh*t together because of these types of actions. Maybe it'll be a new "Cold War", but instead it would be a "Green War"?
dontlaugh 3y ago
Worth considering who told you they’re evil.
- jalapenos 3y ago
  My eyes I guess. Not like the West are that far off though, and busy "why do they get all the nice things!" closing the gap with them. (And to be clear to the pearl clutchers: "China" is referring to the PRC here)
- mvdwoord 3y ago
  They tell us this themselves, if you care to listen.
matthewdgreen 3y ago
China’s progress in low-carbon energy is one of the few bright spots in a world that is otherwise facing a lot of challenges. It’s pretty embarrassing watching folks in the West fiddle around and debate whether it’s even possible to decarbonize, while China just goes ahead and does it. On the flipside, it’s also hard not to notice that China’s energy revolution (including massive growth in renewables, batteries, EVs, nuclear and coal plant construction) has the incidental effect of making the country massively less reliant on imported energy, especially compared to all of the more Western-allied Asian nations. A less optimistic observation is that this could be less about climate change than it is about positioning China to be resilient to an imminent conflict that threatens global oil supply lines.

freeqaz 3y ago

Related news that I also posted in another thread. China is making plans to build a thorium salt container ship: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3243966/chinese-shipyard-unveils-plans-worlds-first-nuclear-tanker-powered-cutting-edge-molten-salt-reactor https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3243966/chin...