☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 days ago‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactorwww.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmygrad.mltechnology@lemmy.mlenergy@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1154arrow-down1external-link‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactorwww.scmp.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square36linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmygrad.mltechnology@lemmy.mlenergy@slrpnk.net
minus-squareGoodGuyWithACat [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63·7 days ago China’s state-owned shipbuilding industry has also unveiled a design for thorium-powered container ships that could potentially achieve emission-free maritime transport. They’ll definitely go to war with China to stop this
minus-squareHexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·7 days agoChinese firms are also building and deploying a few different ammonia fueled vessels - which can be produced from renewables anywhere you have a plant
minus-squarekalabaza [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoDoes that work by combustion? Wouldn’t it emit tons of NOx?
minus-squareHexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoThe dual fuel one that is already around (achieved some milestone this year from memory) has an addictive or catalytic converter (Dual fuel because ammonia combusts poorly, but I’m pretty sure there’s a couple fuel cell ammonia prototype ships in development)
minus-squareCrikeste@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoGood, let China destroy the petulant child nation they built.
They’ll definitely go to war with China to stop this
Chinese firms are also building and deploying a few different ammonia fueled vessels - which can be produced from renewables anywhere you have a plant
Does that work by combustion? Wouldn’t it emit tons of NOx?
The dual fuel one that is already around (achieved some milestone this year from memory) has an addictive or catalytic converter
(Dual fuel because ammonia combusts poorly, but I’m pretty sure there’s a couple fuel cell ammonia prototype ships in development)
China would win.
Good, let China destroy the petulant child nation they built.