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SCOOP: Japan joined the Netherlands and the U.S. in restricting export of next-gen semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China. My latest for @thewirechina:
Tim De Chant
@tdechant
dechant over at bsky and 🐘. Senior climate writer @techcrunch. Teach at @MIT_Sciwrite. Formerly @arstechnica, @KSJatMIT, @NOVApbs.
- I've been closely following the top funded fusion startups for almost two years now, and this summer has been very good to the industry, with over $1.5 billion raised. Take a look at who's in the lead and who's gaining ground.
- Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft — seemingly every hyperscaler has embraced natural gas. They're betting it can get them power quickly, but at what cost? If a new forecast proves correct, the costs could be very material to their bottom line.
- Being an early adopter means I've thought a lot about heat pump water heaters over the years — the good and the bad. Reservoir's new water heater looks like it could solve a lot of the problems I've encountered.
- For fusion power to hit the grid, it'll need more than a working reactor. Lucky for them, Kyoto Fusioneering is working on everything but the reactor, and it just got a grant to test a key part of the fusion fuel cycle.
