China should rapidly improve its English language skills. There is no reason that these Indians are allowed to brag about their accented English. Japan and Korea do not have very high English language skills, and yet they are way more prosperous than the Indians.
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I said "relatively" as in relative to aerospace which started 40 years earlier and has had easily at least 30+ times more R&D money than fusion research. When the aerospace era started, there was an almost immediate technological race from the get go. There was literally nearly non-stop high intensity military and commercial competition from 1910s to the present. By contract, fusion research was an experimental science for the first 20 years and it was only from the 1960s where serious work began. Fusion is definitely hard, since we aren't anywhere near success. However, I think if it had the political will and BIG money backing it from 60 years back, it wouldn't be the weird science thing that it still is.
I think this is subjective depending on the situation. There are things where yes you will have bygones be bygones. However, there is a line, that line is VERY THICK, but if that line is crossed, it becomes a deeply personal thing on a national level that stays with the population long term. You see this when you have governments keep those memories alive in their future generations "to remember". It's not always just about propaganda or strategic advantage. For those who know what this means, there is no need to explain. For those who don't, you hear excuses and reasons why this or that, but they really just don't get it.
antiterror13
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The big issue here is the huge lobby from oil and gas industry with deep pocket, they do not want Fusion become reality too soon
Imagine if we had Fusion now ....... what would happen to energy sector, especially oil and gas ?
I wouldn't be surprised that some vested interests would kill fusion even if it were here now. This has happened so many times through history. Thorium reactors were one of those high potential technologies that was killed because the military wanted the nuclear industry based around the uranium fuel cycle, since it is better suited towards making weapons. So, the Oak Ridge Thorium reactor that was the basis of today's LFTR Thorium reactor research was quietly killed off even though it presented a FAR SAFER, cheaper and sustainable fission technology. IF that didn't happen, it is very likely the entire nuclear industry would have been replaced wholesale by Thorium Molten Salt Reactors.
antiterror13
Brigadier
Exactly and the irony is that China likely will mass produced Thorium Molten Salt Reactors
It took way less investment to get airplanes to work. The Wright Brothers had a bicycle manufacturing shop and were able to make one.
Huge amounts of capital have been spent on fusion and still it is nowhere near viable. The National Ignition Facility in the US, for example, cost over $3.5 billion USD. ITER is supposed to cost $22 billion USD to build.
Only way to do that would be 200+ years of colonization by an English speaking power. I don't think anyone in China wants that.
I think you're being facetious comparing the 1st biplane to fusion. Fusion is the evolution of a long list of scientific milestones just like in aerospace. The better relative comparison would be ceramic matrix composite engine research if you are going to make comparisons like this. Nobody said fusion is a cakewalk, but when it happens, they will look back in hindsight and say it was actually easier than they are saying now. There is no comparison whatsoever in terms of research dollars going into fusion research. ITER is the only large scale spend that crossed into the tens of billions and that plan only happened after 2000 and the bulk of the spending hasn't even happened yet. The aerospace industry had huge R&D starting from almost the very beginning a hundred years ago and it was a literal tech "race" during the Cold War days. There is nothing driving fusion research other than the scientific establishment doing research.
Imo, nuclear power should move in the direction of MSR Thorium reactors. It's an easier and cheaper alternative that can be commercialized at scale in 15-20 years.