Communist China’s Race for Fusion

What an irony if the private enterprise that wins this race is from the People’s Republic.

N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons CC4.0
A demonstration of nuclear fusion technology at Beijing in 2017. N509FZ via Wikimedia Commons CC4.0

Is America going to lose to Communist China the war for the energy source of the future — nuclear fusion? That’s the concern amid reports that the People’s Republic could put up millions to invest in new fusion technology, which shows promise of generating unimaginable supplies of energy with no carbon emissions. American private enterprise took an early lead, only to be co-opted by the heavy hand of the federal government.

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