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China says it will generate its first electricity from nuclear fusion around 2030 — after two 582-tonne toroidal field magnets, the largest superconducting magnets ever built for a fusion device, passed full-load testing in July 2026. Behind that date sit two "artificial suns": the EAST tokamak in Hefei, world...

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China has fired up the world's largest superconducting magnet for nuclear fusion. Built for the CRAFT "artificial sun" project in Hefei, the toroidal-field coil weighs 582 tonnes, stores three times the energy of the equivalent magnet at the international ITER reactor, and is designed to trap a plasma hotter than 100 million degrees Celsius. Every critical part was made in China. #China #NuclearFusion #ArtificialSun #CRAFT
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China has fired up the world's largest superconducting magnet for nuclear fusion. Built for the CRAFT "artificial sun" project in Hefei, the toroidal-field coil weighs 582 tonnes, stores three times the energy of the equivalent magnet at the international ITER reactor, and is designed to trap a plasma hotter than 100 million degrees Celsius. Every critical part was made in China. #China #NuclearFusion #ArtificialSun #CRAFT

Interesting Engineering

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Researchers at Tokamak Energy have captured for the first time a real-time, high-speed video of plasma behaviour inside their ST40 spherical tokamak, tracking visible green and red light emissions as the fusion process occurs. This visual insight comes via a camera operating at thousands of frames per second, offering unprecedented detail of how the plasma evolves, interacts with the surrounding lithium blanket and outer regions, and ultimately radiates energy. The imaging enables scientists to observe how the ultra-hot core transitions outward into cooler zones, how magnetic confinement shapes the plasma behaviour, and how impurities or outer-region interactions influence the process. By giving a ‘star-in-a-donut’ view of fusion in action, this breakthrough adds a new diagnostic tool to the development of fusion energy, helping engineers refine the magnetic confinement, optimise plasma stability and better understand the heat and light flows at play. It was slowed down by 100x. All this was for 0.3s A tokamak is one of the most advanced devices ever created to achieve controlled nuclear fusion, the same process that powers the Sun. Its goal is simple in principle but incredibly challenging in practice: heat a gas until it becomes plasma, raise that plasma to over 100 million degrees, and confine it long enough for hydrogen nuclei to fuse and release energy. Because no material container can survive such temperatures, a tokamak uses powerful magnetic fields to hold and shape the plasma like an invisible cage. The device has a distinctive doughnut-shaped (toroidal) chamber surrounded by magnetic coils. When the machine is switched on, electric currents and external magnets work together to create helical magnetic fields that trap the plasma and keep it away from the walls. As the plasma spirals around these magnetic lines, it heats up dramatically. Additional heating comes from methods like radio-frequency waves and neutral-beam injection, pushing the plasma toward the extreme temperatures needed for fusion. Inside this tightly controlled environment, hydrogen isotopes such as deuterium and tritium can collide and fuse, releasing fast neutrons and a burst of energy. The goal of tokamak research is to reach a point where the fusion reactions produce more energy than the system consumes, a milestone known as “net energy gain.” Modern machines like ITER, JET, and Tokamak Energy’s ST40 are bringing this vision closer, using advanced diagnostics, superconducting magnets, and increasingly stable plasma control. 👉
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Researchers at Tokamak Energy have captured for the first time a real-time, high-speed video of plasma behaviour inside their ST40 spherical tokamak, tracking visible green and red light emissions as the fusion process occurs. This visual insight comes via a camera operating at thousands of frames per second, offering unprecedented detail of how the plasma evolves, interacts with the surrounding lithium blanket and outer regions, and ultimately radiates energy. The imaging enables scientists to observe how the ultra-hot core transitions outward into cooler zones, how magnetic confinement shapes the plasma behaviour, and how impurities or outer-region interactions influence the process. By giving a ‘star-in-a-donut’ view of fusion in action, this breakthrough adds a new diagnostic tool to the development of fusion energy, helping engineers refine the magnetic confinement, optimise plasma stability and better understand the heat and light flows at play. It was slowed down by 100x. All this was for 0.3s A tokamak is one of the most advanced devices ever created to achieve controlled nuclear fusion, the same process that powers the Sun. Its goal is simple in principle but incredibly challenging in practice: heat a gas until it becomes plasma, raise that plasma to over 100 million degrees, and confine it long enough for hydrogen nuclei to fuse and release energy. Because no material container can survive such temperatures, a tokamak uses powerful magnetic fields to hold and shape the plasma like an invisible cage. The device has a distinctive doughnut-shaped (toroidal) chamber surrounded by magnetic coils. When the machine is switched on, electric currents and external magnets work together to create helical magnetic fields that trap the plasma and keep it away from the walls. As the plasma spirals around these magnetic lines, it heats up dramatically. Additional heating comes from methods like radio-frequency waves and neutral-beam injection, pushing the plasma toward the extreme temperatures needed for fusion. Inside this tightly controlled environment, hydrogen isotopes such as deuterium and tritium can collide and fuse, releasing fast neutrons and a burst of energy. The goal of tokamak research is to reach a point where the fusion reactions produce more energy than the system consumes, a milestone known as “net energy gain.” Modern machines like ITER, JET, and Tokamak Energy’s ST40 are bringing this vision closer, using advanced diagnostics, superconducting magnets, and increasingly stable plasma control. 👉

Erika 

162,540 views • 9 months ago

Here we go… This is the moment our ST40 centre column is lifted out. A bit like open-heart surgery on a tokamak. It’s a delicate operation, and a huge milestone for ST40. The centre column has had a tough life, acting as the core of the toroidal magnetic field coil in the world’s highest-field spherical tokamak. After more than 5,000 plasma pulses, it has helped generate magnetic fields above 2 Tesla at the plasma core, confining plasma at temperatures of more than 100 million °C, the threshold for #fusion. Next up, we install the new and improved centre column built by our partners at The Rockwood Group. This is all part of ST40’s major upgrade programme with U.S. Department of Energy and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, helping transform it into one of the most reactor-relevant fusion devices in the world. What began as an experimental tokamak is becoming something much bigger: a customer testbed for the technologies and expertise needed to put #fusionenergy onto the grid⚡ And for anyone wondering what the centre column actually does… 👇 It forms the inner limb of each turn of the toroidal field coil. Its 24 wedges each carry up to 200 kA of current, generating the powerful magnetic fields needed to confine the plasma. Wrapped around the wedges, a 192-turn central solenoid helps drive and sustain the plasma current, after merging-compression start-up. An impressive piece of equipment with an equally impressive track record! #Fusion #FusionEnergy #Innovation
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Here we go… This is the moment our ST40 centre column is lifted out. A bit like open-heart surgery on a tokamak. It’s a delicate operation, and a huge milestone for ST40. The centre column has had a tough life, acting as the core of the toroidal magnetic field coil in the world’s highest-field spherical tokamak. After more than 5,000 plasma pulses, it has helped generate magnetic fields above 2 Tesla at the plasma core, confining plasma at temperatures of more than 100 million °C, the threshold for #fusion. Next up, we install the new and improved centre column built by our partners at The Rockwood Group. This is all part of ST40’s major upgrade programme with U.S. Department of Energy and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, helping transform it into one of the most reactor-relevant fusion devices in the world. What began as an experimental tokamak is becoming something much bigger: a customer testbed for the technologies and expertise needed to put #fusionenergy onto the grid⚡ And for anyone wondering what the centre column actually does… 👇 It forms the inner limb of each turn of the toroidal field coil. Its 24 wedges each carry up to 200 kA of current, generating the powerful magnetic fields needed to confine the plasma. Wrapped around the wedges, a 192-turn central solenoid helps drive and sustain the plasma current, after merging-compression start-up. An impressive piece of equipment with an equally impressive track record! #Fusion #FusionEnergy #Innovation

Tokamak Energy

28,462 views • 2 months ago

Humanity stands on the threshold of a new energy era. In Hefei, eastern China, the next-generation "artificial sun" known as BEST is designed to transform fusion from a science experiment into a real-world power source. Standing for Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak, the reactor’s mission is to achieve “burning plasma,” where the fusion reaction generates its own sustaining heat. This is essential for the industry's holy grail: net energy gain. Targeting a 20 to 200 megawatt output (enough to power tens of thousands of households), BEST plans to demonstrate electricity generation by 2030. As a member of ITER—the world’s largest international fusion project in France—China contributes key components and shares research outcomes. Operating within frameworks like the “Hefei Fusion Declaration,” BEST serves as an open platform, pooling data and resources to accelerate the global transition to abundant, zero-carbon energy. This collaboration is proving that fusion is no longer just a distant dream, but a viable future solution.
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Humanity stands on the threshold of a new energy era. In Hefei, eastern China, the next-generation "artificial sun" known as BEST is designed to transform fusion from a science experiment into a real-world power source. Standing for Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak, the reactor’s mission is to achieve “burning plasma,” where the fusion reaction generates its own sustaining heat. This is essential for the industry's holy grail: net energy gain. Targeting a 20 to 200 megawatt output (enough to power tens of thousands of households), BEST plans to demonstrate electricity generation by 2030. As a member of ITER—the world’s largest international fusion project in France—China contributes key components and shares research outcomes. Operating within frameworks like the “Hefei Fusion Declaration,” BEST serves as an open platform, pooling data and resources to accelerate the global transition to abundant, zero-carbon energy. This collaboration is proving that fusion is no longer just a distant dream, but a viable future solution.

Sinical

89,986 views • 8 months ago

So how do you confine a superhot, 100M°C fusion plasma? With superstrong magnets, of course. 🧲 We've now installed three of the 18 toroidal field (TF) magnets needed for our SPARC fusion demonstration machine. TF magnets are one of the three major magnet types we'll use in SPARC (the others being the poloidal field and central solenoid magnets) to corral the plasma once the machine is operating. Because plasma is made up of charged particles, it responds to a magnetic field. It's a technique refined over dozens of earlier tokamaks built around the world that manage this highly energetic cloud of particles that's hotter than the center of the sun. #SPARC #Magnets #FusionEnergy
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So how do you confine a superhot, 100M°C fusion plasma? With superstrong magnets, of course. 🧲 We've now installed three of the 18 toroidal field (TF) magnets needed for our SPARC fusion demonstration machine. TF magnets are one of the three major magnet types we'll use in SPARC (the others being the poloidal field and central solenoid magnets) to corral the plasma once the machine is operating. Because plasma is made up of charged particles, it responds to a magnetic field. It's a technique refined over dozens of earlier tokamaks built around the world that manage this highly energetic cloud of particles that's hotter than the center of the sun. #SPARC #Magnets #FusionEnergy

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

10,528 views • 2 months ago

New year, new major milestone: We have completed, delivered, and mounted our first magnet for SPARC inside Tokamak Hall ✅ 🧲 . The significance of this toroidal field (TF) magnet achievement can't be overstated. In many ways, its story is the CFS story. Back when the company started in 2018, some thought creating a TF magnet with high-temperature superconductor (HTS) was a farfetched idea. But our founders' resolve to develop this key innovation unlocked our new pathway to a smaller, more economical fusion power plant. This toroidal field (TF) magnet is one of 18 that'll be threaded around the vacuum vessel to help tame and confine the superhot plasma once our SPARC tokamak is operational. The vacuum vessel, the donut-shaped container at the heart of the machine as devoid of air as outer space, offers the extreme conditions needed for fusion. The TF magnets help create a magnetic bottle, confining the fusion plasma to keep it away from the vessel walls that would cool it down. Read more on our blog: #PowerMoves #Magnets #SPARC #FusionEnergy #StarBuilders
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New year, new major milestone: We have completed, delivered, and mounted our first magnet for SPARC inside Tokamak Hall ✅ 🧲 . The significance of this toroidal field (TF) magnet achievement can't be overstated. In many ways, its story is the CFS story. Back when the company started in 2018, some thought creating a TF magnet with high-temperature superconductor (HTS) was a farfetched idea. But our founders' resolve to develop this key innovation unlocked our new pathway to a smaller, more economical fusion power plant. This toroidal field (TF) magnet is one of 18 that'll be threaded around the vacuum vessel to help tame and confine the superhot plasma once our SPARC tokamak is operational. The vacuum vessel, the donut-shaped container at the heart of the machine as devoid of air as outer space, offers the extreme conditions needed for fusion. The TF magnets help create a magnetic bottle, confining the fusion plasma to keep it away from the vessel walls that would cool it down. Read more on our blog: #PowerMoves #Magnets #SPARC #FusionEnergy #StarBuilders

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

15,298 views • 8 months ago

Plasma is better in colour! Watch one of our latest #plasma pulses in our ST40 tokamak, filmed using our new high-speed colour camera at an incredible 16,000 frames per second. Each pulse lasts around a fifth of a second. What you’re seeing is mostly visible light from the plasma’s edge, glowing pink. The core is simply too hot to emit visible light. In this footage, lithium is dropped into the plasma. As it interacts, it glows red when excited, then turns green as it becomes ionised, losing an electron. From there, it traces the magnetic field lines, revealing the plasma’s path around the tokamak. Lithium is the focus of our $52 million ST40 upgrade programme, in partnership with U.S. Department of Energy and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. This builds on pioneering work at PPPL and others that has shown that lithium can significantly improve plasma performance. This video comes from ongoing research into X-point radiator (XPR) regimes, a promising operating mode for future #fusion power plants that aims to cool the plasma before it reaches plasma-facing components (PFCs), helping to reduce wear without compromising performance. Fusion research just got a lot more colourful! 👇 #Fusion #FusionEnergy #EnergyTransition #Innovation
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Plasma is better in colour! Watch one of our latest #plasma pulses in our ST40 tokamak, filmed using our new high-speed colour camera at an incredible 16,000 frames per second. Each pulse lasts around a fifth of a second. What you’re seeing is mostly visible light from the plasma’s edge, glowing pink. The core is simply too hot to emit visible light. In this footage, lithium is dropped into the plasma. As it interacts, it glows red when excited, then turns green as it becomes ionised, losing an electron. From there, it traces the magnetic field lines, revealing the plasma’s path around the tokamak. Lithium is the focus of our $52 million ST40 upgrade programme, in partnership with U.S. Department of Energy and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. This builds on pioneering work at PPPL and others that has shown that lithium can significantly improve plasma performance. This video comes from ongoing research into X-point radiator (XPR) regimes, a promising operating mode for future #fusion power plants that aims to cool the plasma before it reaches plasma-facing components (PFCs), helping to reduce wear without compromising performance. Fusion research just got a lot more colourful! 👇 #Fusion #FusionEnergy #EnergyTransition #Innovation

Tokamak Energy

2,085,671 views • 10 months ago

Taming the Edge: How lithium could help us control #fusion plasmas. This video captures the first flashes of lithium being injected into the #plasma of our ST40 tokamak, marking the start of our exploration into its effects. Why lithium? In fusion research, we aim for H-mode, a high-performance state with improved plasma confinement. Future fusion power plants are expected to operate in this mode. But H-mode brings a challenge: ELMs (Edge Localised Modes) are bursts of energy at the plasma edge, similar to mini solar flares. These can reduce plasma temperature and damage the divertor with intense heat and particles. Pioneering work by PPPL and others has shown that lithium can suppress ELMs and increase energy confinement time, leading to higher temperatures. On ST40, we’re currently injecting lithium powder during plasma shots to explore its effects. As part of our upcoming ST40 LEAPS upgrade – in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero – we’ll go further, coating plasma-facing components with solid lithium using the ‘lithium evaporation’ technique. We’ll be experimentally testing several mechanisms. One key focus is how lithium absorbs hydrogen isotopes and reduces their recycling back into the plasma, lowering the density at the plasma edge, leading to a more stable edge pressure gradient. We’re starting to understand more about lithium’s effect on plasma performance, and early results show lithium isn't getting into the plasma core, which is good news for avoiding diluting the fusion fuel in future plants. The physics is complex, and we’re still learning. But each step brings us closer to fusion energy. By incorporating lithium into ST40, the world’s highest field spherical tokamak, we’re advancing our understanding of this critical enabling technology. #Fusion #FusionEnergy #Innovation #Limitless #EnergyTransition
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Taming the Edge: How lithium could help us control #fusion plasmas. This video captures the first flashes of lithium being injected into the #plasma of our ST40 tokamak, marking the start of our exploration into its effects. Why lithium? In fusion research, we aim for H-mode, a high-performance state with improved plasma confinement. Future fusion power plants are expected to operate in this mode. But H-mode brings a challenge: ELMs (Edge Localised Modes) are bursts of energy at the plasma edge, similar to mini solar flares. These can reduce plasma temperature and damage the divertor with intense heat and particles. Pioneering work by PPPL and others has shown that lithium can suppress ELMs and increase energy confinement time, leading to higher temperatures. On ST40, we’re currently injecting lithium powder during plasma shots to explore its effects. As part of our upcoming ST40 LEAPS upgrade – in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero – we’ll go further, coating plasma-facing components with solid lithium using the ‘lithium evaporation’ technique. We’ll be experimentally testing several mechanisms. One key focus is how lithium absorbs hydrogen isotopes and reduces their recycling back into the plasma, lowering the density at the plasma edge, leading to a more stable edge pressure gradient. We’re starting to understand more about lithium’s effect on plasma performance, and early results show lithium isn't getting into the plasma core, which is good news for avoiding diluting the fusion fuel in future plants. The physics is complex, and we’re still learning. But each step brings us closer to fusion energy. By incorporating lithium into ST40, the world’s highest field spherical tokamak, we’re advancing our understanding of this critical enabling technology. #Fusion #FusionEnergy #Innovation #Limitless #EnergyTransition

Tokamak Energy

66,652 views • 1 year ago

A knockout finish to 2025 for ST40! This video shows a stunning colour plasma pulse at 16,000 frames per second, from a campaign where our ST40 spherical tokamak achieved three new performance records before heading into a major upgrade: ✅Highest plasma current – 1 MA (one million amperes) ✅Highest stored energy ✅Highest fusion triple product ST40 set a new record by reaching 1 MA of plasma current, while stored energy nearly doubled compared to earlier campaigns. This demonstrates that a relatively small plasma volume can hold immense power – an important insight on the path to energy-producing devices. The fusion triple product—a key measure of performance combining plasma temperature, density, and energy confinement—rose over 30% to ~8 ±2 × 10¹⁸m⁻³·keV·s. Next up: a $52M upgrade in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, driving the development of key technologies and expertise for fusion. ST40 continues to punch above its weight—and we’re just getting started. Read more: 👇 #FusionEnergy #CleanEnergy #Innovation #Limitless
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A knockout finish to 2025 for ST40! This video shows a stunning colour plasma pulse at 16,000 frames per second, from a campaign where our ST40 spherical tokamak achieved three new performance records before heading into a major upgrade: ✅Highest plasma current – 1 MA (one million amperes) ✅Highest stored energy ✅Highest fusion triple product ST40 set a new record by reaching 1 MA of plasma current, while stored energy nearly doubled compared to earlier campaigns. This demonstrates that a relatively small plasma volume can hold immense power – an important insight on the path to energy-producing devices. The fusion triple product—a key measure of performance combining plasma temperature, density, and energy confinement—rose over 30% to ~8 ±2 × 10¹⁸m⁻³·keV·s. Next up: a $52M upgrade in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, driving the development of key technologies and expertise for fusion. ST40 continues to punch above its weight—and we’re just getting started. Read more: 👇 #FusionEnergy #CleanEnergy #Innovation #Limitless

Tokamak Energy

46,625 views • 8 months ago

Today, we laid the physics foundation for our ARC fusion power plant. ⚛️ With 5 deeply researched papers — validated by independent peer review and published in the Journal of Plasma Physics — we’ve shown we've nailed the scientific basics of producing copious amounts of fusion power. The collective assessment from our 58 co-authors? This machine will work. No scientific breakthroughs are required to bring this clean, secure, abundant source of energy to the grid. Here is how we're handling fusion's biggest challenges: ⚡ Powering the Grid: Using extremely strong magnets, ARC will confine the plasma long enough to generate 1.1 GW of fusion power. We'll convert that into 400 MW of continuous net electricity — enough to power ~280,000 average American homes. 🛡️ Handling Heat Exhaust: To control a superhot, unruly cloud of charged particles, we're utilizing proven methods to safely handle the heat exhaust that acts as a key practical constraint for tokamaks. ✅ Managing Disruptions: We aren't trying to build an operationally perfect machine. We are pragmatically designing ARC to safely handle disruptions and keep the plasma stable for top performance. 🏗️ Proving the Approach: We're building on decades of tokamak research and supercomputer simulations. And we're proving our approach right now with SPARC, the tokamak we are actively building in Massachusetts. With our transparency, you don’t have to take our assertions on faith. We are really pushing fusion forward.
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Today, we laid the physics foundation for our ARC fusion power plant. ⚛️ With 5 deeply researched papers — validated by independent peer review and published in the Journal of Plasma Physics — we’ve shown we've nailed the scientific basics of producing copious amounts of fusion power. The collective assessment from our 58 co-authors? This machine will work. No scientific breakthroughs are required to bring this clean, secure, abundant source of energy to the grid. Here is how we're handling fusion's biggest challenges: ⚡ Powering the Grid: Using extremely strong magnets, ARC will confine the plasma long enough to generate 1.1 GW of fusion power. We'll convert that into 400 MW of continuous net electricity — enough to power ~280,000 average American homes. 🛡️ Handling Heat Exhaust: To control a superhot, unruly cloud of charged particles, we're utilizing proven methods to safely handle the heat exhaust that acts as a key practical constraint for tokamaks. ✅ Managing Disruptions: We aren't trying to build an operationally perfect machine. We are pragmatically designing ARC to safely handle disruptions and keep the plasma stable for top performance. 🏗️ Proving the Approach: We're building on decades of tokamak research and supercomputer simulations. And we're proving our approach right now with SPARC, the tokamak we are actively building in Massachusetts. With our transparency, you don’t have to take our assertions on faith. We are really pushing fusion forward.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

11,194 views • 3 months ago

China Just Admitted Its Population Collapse Is Now Irreversible. 33 Million Chinese men will never find a wife and it's too late to fix. China’s marriage rate just collapsed to levels that make recovery nearly impossible. In Q1 2026, China recorded only 1.69 million marriages, down 6.24% from last year and less than half the level of 2017. Behind the numbers lies a terrifying reality: 33 million more men than women, a shrinking young population, sky-high housing costs, youth unemployment, and a growing “lying flat” generation that has simply given up on the old life script. This is a structural demographic crisis decades in the making and it is already too late for China to reverse. In this video, I break down the 6 major factors destroying China’s marriage system and what it means for China’s future.
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China Just Admitted Its Population Collapse Is Now Irreversible. 33 Million Chinese men will never find a wife and it's too late to fix. China’s marriage rate just collapsed to levels that make recovery nearly impossible. In Q1 2026, China recorded only 1.69 million marriages, down 6.24% from last year and less than half the level of 2017. Behind the numbers lies a terrifying reality: 33 million more men than women, a shrinking young population, sky-high housing costs, youth unemployment, and a growing “lying flat” generation that has simply given up on the old life script. This is a structural demographic crisis decades in the making and it is already too late for China to reverse. In this video, I break down the 6 major factors destroying China’s marriage system and what it means for China’s future.

Ken Cao-The China Crash Chronicle

633,631 views • 3 months ago

Trump’s media company merging with a nuclear fusion company is a much bigger deal than you think. CEO Devin Nunes calls the project “Manhattan Project 2.0.” “There’s nothing more important than making this work.” Nunes just broke down why this is such a big deal: “We just released plans that we’re merging with TAE.” “The first commercial reactor will be about 50 megawatt, but the second reactor … would be somewhere in that 350 to 500 megawatt range.” “The big nuclear fusion reactors are around a thousand.” “Most of the coal or gas plants are in that two to five hundred range.” “So, TAE working with us, building these reactors—obviously this has never been done before, so there’s a lot to be done.” “You can have all the AI, all the technology you want, but if you don’t have the power, it doesn’t matter.” “The only competition, in my mind, for our future company is China.” “The Chinese have put untold billions into this, and they know that it’s now going to be possible to have a nuclear fusion reactor that works.” “We’re really racing against the clock against China.”
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Trump’s media company merging with a nuclear fusion company is a much bigger deal than you think. CEO Devin Nunes calls the project “Manhattan Project 2.0.” “There’s nothing more important than making this work.” Nunes just broke down why this is such a big deal: “We just released plans that we’re merging with TAE.” “The first commercial reactor will be about 50 megawatt, but the second reactor … would be somewhere in that 350 to 500 megawatt range.” “The big nuclear fusion reactors are around a thousand.” “Most of the coal or gas plants are in that two to five hundred range.” “So, TAE working with us, building these reactors—obviously this has never been done before, so there’s a lot to be done.” “You can have all the AI, all the technology you want, but if you don’t have the power, it doesn’t matter.” “The only competition, in my mind, for our future company is China.” “The Chinese have put untold billions into this, and they know that it’s now going to be possible to have a nuclear fusion reactor that works.” “We’re really racing against the clock against China.”

Jan Jekielek

24,615 views • 7 months ago

How to get to Mars in just 3 months? The British startup Pulsar Fusion has presented an ambitious project — Sunbird. This is a space tug with a thermonuclear engine that can accelerate to 800,000 km/h! At this speed, you can fly to Mars in just 2-3 months, and to Jupiter or Saturn — in a few years. The engine is based on a thermonuclear reaction between deuterium and helium-3. Unlike conventional nuclear fuel, it produces almost no radioactive waste — mainly protons are released, not neutrons. The engine operates on the principle of direct fusion: the plasma is not held inside, but is immediately ejected, creating a powerful jet stream. This is simpler than complex installations on Earth, and does not require a large energy output — the reaction itself is enough. The first flight of the prototype into space is planned for 2027, and a full-fledged tugboat by 2030. In the future, Pulsar Fusion wants to build a network of "fueling stations" throughout the Solar System. Such stations will help recharge tugs and send missions even to the most distant planets.
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How to get to Mars in just 3 months? The British startup Pulsar Fusion has presented an ambitious project — Sunbird. This is a space tug with a thermonuclear engine that can accelerate to 800,000 km/h! At this speed, you can fly to Mars in just 2-3 months, and to Jupiter or Saturn — in a few years. The engine is based on a thermonuclear reaction between deuterium and helium-3. Unlike conventional nuclear fuel, it produces almost no radioactive waste — mainly protons are released, not neutrons. The engine operates on the principle of direct fusion: the plasma is not held inside, but is immediately ejected, creating a powerful jet stream. This is simpler than complex installations on Earth, and does not require a large energy output — the reaction itself is enough. The first flight of the prototype into space is planned for 2027, and a full-fledged tugboat by 2030. In the future, Pulsar Fusion wants to build a network of "fueling stations" throughout the Solar System. Such stations will help recharge tugs and send missions even to the most distant planets.

Black Hole

42,207 views • 1 year ago

Helion energy is building what will be the world’s first commercial fusion power plant, scheduled to be finished in 3 years. Great interview by Lex Fridman with David Kirtley (CEO of Helion). Most power plants are heat engines. You burn fuel or run fission, boil water, spin a turbine, and get about 35% electricity while the rest leaves as waste heat. Helion flips the flow. The fusion reaction makes charged particles that push back on a magnetic field tied to a capacitor bank, so you get direct electricity instead of a steam loop. That path can reach about 85% efficiency from fusion energy to electrical output, which means less conversion gear and tighter control over power delivery. 🧪 How the machine works A giant capacitor bank drives coils that both accelerate and squeeze plasma. Two plasmas, deuterium plus helium‑3, are launched from opposite sides and collide in the center. By rapidly reversing the magnetic field in about 1 microsecond, the plasma self-organizes into a field‑reversed configuration that traps itself. Then the machine compresses it hard. Fusion happens, new charged particles appear, and their pressure pushes the magnetic field so the system dumps energy back into the capacitors. It is pulsed, up to 100Hz in tests, so each shot is a clean measure of input versus recovered electricity. 🛡️ Safety and waste There is no chain reaction. The device only holds about 1 second of fuel at any time, so stopping the drive stops fusion. X‑rays and some neutrons exist during operation, so you use shielding and standard controls, similar to particle‑accelerator facilities. When the pulse stops, the radiation source stops. 🖥️ Why data centers care The output is high‑voltage DC sitting on capacitors. You can invert to AC for the grid, or route DC with fewer conversions into rectifier buses for racks. That cuts losses and simplifies backup. The company is targeting 2028 for a first grid-tied plant for a large buyer, which lines up with growing AI power needs. 🧩 What is still hard Helium‑3 is scarce on Earth, so you must produce it or source it. This fuel also likes higher temperatures, roughly 200M-300M degrees, so the pulsed magnets and power electronics must be very fast and very tough. Stability is managed by giving the plasma enough “spin” and length so it behaves like a fast top that stays upright, plus thousands of synchronized switches that fire with microsecond timing. If this architecture keeps showing pulse gain and high‑efficiency recovery, you get a compact generator that skips steam, feeds a capacitor, and delivers clean power in the exact format modern compute wants.
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Helion energy is building what will be the world’s first commercial fusion power plant, scheduled to be finished in 3 years. Great interview by Lex Fridman with David Kirtley (CEO of Helion). Most power plants are heat engines. You burn fuel or run fission, boil water, spin a turbine, and get about 35% electricity while the rest leaves as waste heat. Helion flips the flow. The fusion reaction makes charged particles that push back on a magnetic field tied to a capacitor bank, so you get direct electricity instead of a steam loop. That path can reach about 85% efficiency from fusion energy to electrical output, which means less conversion gear and tighter control over power delivery. 🧪 How the machine works A giant capacitor bank drives coils that both accelerate and squeeze plasma. Two plasmas, deuterium plus helium‑3, are launched from opposite sides and collide in the center. By rapidly reversing the magnetic field in about 1 microsecond, the plasma self-organizes into a field‑reversed configuration that traps itself. Then the machine compresses it hard. Fusion happens, new charged particles appear, and their pressure pushes the magnetic field so the system dumps energy back into the capacitors. It is pulsed, up to 100Hz in tests, so each shot is a clean measure of input versus recovered electricity. 🛡️ Safety and waste There is no chain reaction. The device only holds about 1 second of fuel at any time, so stopping the drive stops fusion. X‑rays and some neutrons exist during operation, so you use shielding and standard controls, similar to particle‑accelerator facilities. When the pulse stops, the radiation source stops. 🖥️ Why data centers care The output is high‑voltage DC sitting on capacitors. You can invert to AC for the grid, or route DC with fewer conversions into rectifier buses for racks. That cuts losses and simplifies backup. The company is targeting 2028 for a first grid-tied plant for a large buyer, which lines up with growing AI power needs. 🧩 What is still hard Helium‑3 is scarce on Earth, so you must produce it or source it. This fuel also likes higher temperatures, roughly 200M-300M degrees, so the pulsed magnets and power electronics must be very fast and very tough. Stability is managed by giving the plasma enough “spin” and length so it behaves like a fast top that stays upright, plus thousands of synchronized switches that fire with microsecond timing. If this architecture keeps showing pulse gain and high‑efficiency recovery, you get a compact generator that skips steam, feeds a capacitor, and delivers clean power in the exact format modern compute wants.

Rohan Paul

63,912 views • 9 months ago

China’s car market has deepened its slump this summer, with sales plunging and a flood of new product driving automaker margins to record lows, putting the world’s biggest auto market on pace for its first-ever double-digit annual decline, industry data shows. Sales of new passenger vehicles fell 25 percent to 1.35 million in July for a seventh-straight month of declines, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Aug. 12. Deliveries dropped 24 percent to 9.6 million in the first seven months of the year. The figures, which cover sedans, crossovers, SUVs, multipurpose vehicles and minibuses, reflect stalled economic growth, higher fuel prices and a 5 percent purchase tax on electrified vehicles imposed in January. The unprecedented decline marks a reversal for a market that has been the industry’s growth engine for two decades. It is forcing automakers to look abroad for sales growth, pushing exports to record levels. That strategy, pursued by Chinese and international carmakers alike from their underutilized plants in the country, masks mounting pressure on their local businesses. China’s overseas pressure valve, meanwhile, is stoking competition in the global car market. Exports for all major Chinese carmakers have stayed robust this year. For the first seven months, 5.35 million passenger vehicles were shipped overseas, up 73 percent from a year earlier, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. #china #news #cars #automotive #autoindustry
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China’s car market has deepened its slump this summer, with sales plunging and a flood of new product driving automaker margins to record lows, putting the world’s biggest auto market on pace for its first-ever double-digit annual decline, industry data shows. Sales of new passenger vehicles fell 25 percent to 1.35 million in July for a seventh-straight month of declines, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Aug. 12. Deliveries dropped 24 percent to 9.6 million in the first seven months of the year. The figures, which cover sedans, crossovers, SUVs, multipurpose vehicles and minibuses, reflect stalled economic growth, higher fuel prices and a 5 percent purchase tax on electrified vehicles imposed in January. The unprecedented decline marks a reversal for a market that has been the industry’s growth engine for two decades. It is forcing automakers to look abroad for sales growth, pushing exports to record levels. That strategy, pursued by Chinese and international carmakers alike from their underutilized plants in the country, masks mounting pressure on their local businesses. China’s overseas pressure valve, meanwhile, is stoking competition in the global car market. Exports for all major Chinese carmakers have stayed robust this year. For the first seven months, 5.35 million passenger vehicles were shipped overseas, up 73 percent from a year earlier, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. #china #news #cars #automotive #autoindustry

Automotive News

56,642 views • 14 days ago

🚨 US PLASMA FUSION ENERGY READY FOR CORPORATE DEPLOYMENT !? This time last year the US Government and scientific institutions were still referring to plasma fusion energy as fringe science - without evidence that it could be sustained Now I have found official documents referring to deployment, distribution and commercial rollout plans. Not under the Department of Energy but under what is now called the Department of War - yes the priority is very much a military one In documents relating to the 2026 National Defense Authorisation Act, lawyers appear to be involved in a process which asks the Pentagon to examine and explain deployment pathways, infrastructure requirements, supply chains, critical materials, regulatory barriers and military applications. Those are the questions you ask when you're planning adoption. Not when you're debating whether something is possible. And Congress specifically requested analysis of compact fusion systems capable of producing high-energy neutrons for radioisotope production. So just how far ahead are the US from what we have been led to believe in a race that is worth more than the current US national debt? Morgan Stanley has estimated the victorious first mover advantage will secure a market worth $40 trillion - and all this on the back of plasma physicists and academics going missing, whilst Trump Media Group completes billion dollar deals with plasma fusion specialists like TAE Listen now to some of the details that may open up a very big debate indeed 👇 #nuclear #energy Smitty 🇺🇸🦅 Destiny Rezendes Ashton Forbes
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🚨 US PLASMA FUSION ENERGY READY FOR CORPORATE DEPLOYMENT !? This time last year the US Government and scientific institutions were still referring to plasma fusion energy as fringe science - without evidence that it could be sustained Now I have found official documents referring to deployment, distribution and commercial rollout plans. Not under the Department of Energy but under what is now called the Department of War - yes the priority is very much a military one In documents relating to the 2026 National Defense Authorisation Act, lawyers appear to be involved in a process which asks the Pentagon to examine and explain deployment pathways, infrastructure requirements, supply chains, critical materials, regulatory barriers and military applications. Those are the questions you ask when you're planning adoption. Not when you're debating whether something is possible. And Congress specifically requested analysis of compact fusion systems capable of producing high-energy neutrons for radioisotope production. So just how far ahead are the US from what we have been led to believe in a race that is worth more than the current US national debt? Morgan Stanley has estimated the victorious first mover advantage will secure a market worth $40 trillion - and all this on the back of plasma physicists and academics going missing, whilst Trump Media Group completes billion dollar deals with plasma fusion specialists like TAE Listen now to some of the details that may open up a very big debate indeed 👇 #nuclear #energy Smitty 🇺🇸🦅 Destiny Rezendes Ashton Forbes

Moneypenny

12,403 views • 3 months ago

🇨🇳 Everyone braced for the Iran war to crush China. It walked away the biggest winner, and some argue that was the plan all along... Brandon Weichert flips the usual script. Beijing, he argues, treated this war as a stress test, a proof of concept, to see whether it could ride out a real crisis with Washington. It could. While the U.S. now sits exposed and waiting for the bottom to fall out, China quietly pulled itself off the global oil market for two months and leaned on the reserves it spent years stockpiling. The country that was supposed to be most vulnerable turned out to be the most insulated. And the war, in his telling, supercharged the very thing that makes China hard to corner: scale. Solar, batteries, EVs, hydro, nuclear, even a fusion program he says outpaces the West. The crisis became a sales pitch for Chinese energy and a billboard for the narrative Beijing has pushed for years, that America destabilizes and China endures. What gives his read teeth is the restraint underneath it. He doesn't see China lunging for the wheel. A four-thousand-year-old instinct, he says, makes Beijing crave calm on its borders, so it would rather let the world drift into its orbit than seize it. "Do nothing and still win," as the meme goes. The one place that calm could shatter, in his view, isn't Taiwan. It's Japan. Brandon Weichert
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🇨🇳 Everyone braced for the Iran war to crush China. It walked away the biggest winner, and some argue that was the plan all along... Brandon Weichert flips the usual script. Beijing, he argues, treated this war as a stress test, a proof of concept, to see whether it could ride out a real crisis with Washington. It could. While the U.S. now sits exposed and waiting for the bottom to fall out, China quietly pulled itself off the global oil market for two months and leaned on the reserves it spent years stockpiling. The country that was supposed to be most vulnerable turned out to be the most insulated. And the war, in his telling, supercharged the very thing that makes China hard to corner: scale. Solar, batteries, EVs, hydro, nuclear, even a fusion program he says outpaces the West. The crisis became a sales pitch for Chinese energy and a billboard for the narrative Beijing has pushed for years, that America destabilizes and China endures. What gives his read teeth is the restraint underneath it. He doesn't see China lunging for the wheel. A four-thousand-year-old instinct, he says, makes Beijing crave calm on its borders, so it would rather let the world drift into its orbit than seize it. "Do nothing and still win," as the meme goes. The one place that calm could shatter, in his view, isn't Taiwan. It's Japan. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

206,164 views • 2 months ago

📢 PM Mark Carney is in Calgary & he just said this about the Industrial Carbon Tax in Alberta "At its core, it's tightening the TIER system which is the industrial carbon price system here in Alberta. To a level of at least $130 with a pass price from there What does that mean? It means more than a six times increase in the industrial price of carbon, from its effective level which is much lower, than the headline level, the effective level, to the level that's committed to in the agreement... ...It creates the conditions for this big investment in the Pathways Project, the largest in the world, which will have huge reductions in emissions, the equivalent of taking more than 90% of the cars and trucks off the road here in Alberta in the first phase of that project... ...We are going to get to our greenhouse gas objectives, our climate objectives, only through massive investment."
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📢 PM Mark Carney is in Calgary & he just said this about the Industrial Carbon Tax in Alberta "At its core, it's tightening the TIER system which is the industrial carbon price system here in Alberta. To a level of at least $130 with a pass price from there What does that mean? It means more than a six times increase in the industrial price of carbon, from its effective level which is much lower, than the headline level, the effective level, to the level that's committed to in the agreement... ...It creates the conditions for this big investment in the Pathways Project, the largest in the world, which will have huge reductions in emissions, the equivalent of taking more than 90% of the cars and trucks off the road here in Alberta in the first phase of that project... ...We are going to get to our greenhouse gas objectives, our climate objectives, only through massive investment."

Kris Sims

23,122 views • 9 months ago