China has a pretty good track record taking new tech like this to market. Just look at all the battery tech advances we’ve seen over the past few years.
Sure, I’m just pointing out that I’m less dismissive of new breakthroughs coming out of China. There’s huge government investment in supporting tech, and that addresses the problem of the cost of taking something that works in a lab and scaling it to commercial output.
Technology changes a lot from R&D announcement to actual commercial production. Think of it as ‘we were able to prove this could be a viable direction’ rather than a finished product that just needs to be scaled up.
There’s a lot of articles like this and then it turns out you can’t actually manufacture it reliably.
China has a pretty good track record taking new tech like this to market. Just look at all the battery tech advances we’ve seen over the past few years.
Both of these things can be true though
Sure, I’m just pointing out that I’m less dismissive of new breakthroughs coming out of China. There’s huge government investment in supporting tech, and that addresses the problem of the cost of taking something that works in a lab and scaling it to commercial output.
Technology changes a lot from R&D announcement to actual commercial production. Think of it as ‘we were able to prove this could be a viable direction’ rather than a finished product that just needs to be scaled up.