• Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    Did the article mention the thorium reactor that they’re building in the Gobi? The Guardian also did a piece about China’s green energy progress, and the thorium tech was completely ignored.

    Between China having huge thorium reserves and the same reactor tech being able to run on nuclear waste, they’re opening up a path to removing fossil fuels energy entirely.

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      Did the article mention the thorium reactor that they’re building in the Gobi?

      They finished it recently, it got permit to start operating. It was even completed a year ahead of schedule, China seems to be intensifying their energy R&D.

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      Not to mention that China wants to build thousands of these reactors all over the country, and even send them out to dozens of countries as a start, and China will be able to power their entire country for 20,000 years.