China living in a chill city builder game whereas America is living in dwarf fortress.
China selects nuclear power, holds shift and drags 40 plants onto the map.
America is having a mass panic event while trying to attack the visiting caravan and unleashing a forgotten cave beast
Cant wait for the US to be flooded by lava and be raided by Kobolds
That is the single best description of our current geopolitical situation that I’ve seen to date. 🤣
They don’t even have to look at their resource bank either before shift-placing but do anyway.
Also I will now describe liberal democracies as dwarf fortress succession runs.
I was injured by magma. It was inevitable.
When no one was looking, China
built forty nuclear power units.
They built 40 nuclear power units.
That’s as many as four tens.
And that’s awesome.
China has reached that point in HOI4 where you have so many civilian factories you dont even know what to do with them.
they reached that point when they upgraded all their railways to level 5 a decade ago
“Fuck it, maximum coastal forts along the entire coastline. AA too.”
Here’s to hoping they get 40 LFT reactors and transition away from fossil fuels.
I’m hoping they modularize it and mass produce it and start exporting cheap, safe and efficient reactors. The west will be malding so hard
Yeah but breaking America’s stronghold on natural gas could be a catalyst for ww3 so it’s a mixed bag.
What are they gonna fight that war with? They’d have not a single F35 serviceable because the parts are all dependent on foreign supply chains. The US keeps getting dunked on by Yemen who don’t even have an air force, even US army mouthpieces have been saying the US would get dogwalked engaging with Iran and Russia, let alone the entire BRICS bloc.
They’d have to go for first strike nuclear which, fair enough, if anybody’s stupid and vicious enough to try it’s gringos (whether in the US or Isn’treal)
Is currently happening, or is capable of happening? How many are actually currently under construction?
The phrasing is weird.
looks like they’re building 40 reactors as we speak
From what I can tell, it’s 30 currently being constructed, 10 more just got approved.
Don’t get me wrong, this is great. But if hexbears go out elsewhere posting this the very first thing anyone is going to do is quibble about the numbers so it’s good for us to know what they actually are.
I think if any Lemmy lib pulled an
“ackshually it’s only 30 reactors being built, 10 are only approved to be built” they’d make themselves look dumb for pedantry. China is not the US, if they announce something is being built then it will get built.they’d make themselves look dumb for pedantry
That’s all that libs have in their arsenal
Ah yeah, rewatched it, you’re right.
It’s fine though I went hunting for more information (because I am dealing with libs elsewhere quibbling it). These projects will be on the ground within months. Bailong and Jinqimen were pouring concrete on site just 3 months after approval.
There’s little reason for anyone to quibble. 40 projects are approved and 40 will simultaneously be in construction within months. This phrasing is fine. If anything the engagement boosting it causes by making libs “correct” the mistake will increase the number of people that see it.
Things move at an incredible speed in China, I never cease to be amazed how quickly they can go from deciding to do something to actually doing it.
Yeah when I checked this approval to concrete pouring speed I was impressed I could find evidence that things move this fast. It’s actually amazing.
meanwhile in America phony stark set back nuclear badly https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=payvx8pUTS4
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
would be nice if their coal hasn’t been increasing as well
short term use of coal is part of the overall transition plan https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-energy-transition-in-5-charts/
And China is actually ahead of the targets they set there already https://climateenergyfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MONTHLY-CHINA-ENERGY-UPDATE-_-China-to-Achieve-its-2030-Energy-Target-in-July-2024.pdf
Why does China not simply do what any real democracy does - implicitly admit that the idea of a ‘transition’ plan was a scam lie to make some short-term profits, and then do a complete u-turn in order to make some more sweet short-term profits? All it has to do is oppress and eventually kill everyone.
At the same time, I’m reading about how they’re missing other targets, so overall I’m confused: https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-6-march-2025-two-sessions-climate-news-new-vice-minister-targets-missed/
Seems like most of that is speculation from western think tanks. I guess we’ll see how things look by the end of the year. I expect that China will only accelerate moving away from fossil fuels use if for no other reason than it being a national security concern.
