Physics World China Briefing 2022
In September 2020 Chinese president Xi Jinping laid out the country’s plan to transition from one of the world’s biggest greenhouse-gas emitters to a “net zero” carbon society by 2060. In this free-to-read briefing, find out how China could achieve this ambitious goal via renewable energy, carbon capture, improving coal power stations and, possibly, a renaissance of nuclear power. This year’s briefing also examines China’s latest work in quantum tech, its upgrade to the Beijing Electron–Positron Collider and studies of samples brought back from the Chang’e-5 mission to the Moon.
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