To the best of my knowledge, this is the first commercially-funded (i.e., non-government) nuclear fusion reactor. Notable investors are MiHoYo (developers of Genshin Impact), Nio (Chinese EV company), and Sequoia Capital...

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (7 children)

In your guys opinion, is that good or bad? Privately funded would mean proprietary & profit driven implementation for such a crucial technology (if successful). I personally don't like it.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The CPC still maintains a lot of influence over companies even when they're getting their funding from private industry as part of their "politics in command" strategy for controlling market forces. We'll see how it plays out.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yep, if they need to disappear a CEO, no matter how big, they can and have done so in the past.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 months ago

Won't somebody think of the CEOs!

[–] match@pawb.social 17 points 3 months ago

i don't know why you got a downvote, disappearinga CEO should be the most popular thing the ccp does

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