They call it Starkirrer Base
Posted on 02/10/2016 9:00:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
SCIENTISTS in China are a step closer to creating an 'artificial sun' using nuclear fusion, in a breakthrough that could break mankind's reliance on fossil fuels and offer unlimited clean energy forever more.
Chinese experts last week successfully produced hydrogen gas more than three times hotter than the core of the Sun.
Crucially, the scientists were able to maintain that temperature -- 50 million degrees C -- for 102 seconds.
The experiment means nuclear fusion experts are a step nearer to replacing depleting fossil fuels with limitless nuclear energy powered by the ultra-high temperature gas.
Until now, Germany has been at the forefront of the quest for nuclear fusion after physicists there used 2 megawatts of microwave radiation to heat hydrogen gas to 80 million C -- but only for a fraction of a second.
Last week's experiment in China, which took place at the Institute of Physical Science in Hefei using a magnetic fusion reactor, heralded a massive leap in atomic research.
The reactor, officially known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), heated hydrogen gas to around 50 million Kelvins (49.999 million degrees Celsius), which is equal to a medium-scale thermonuclear explosion.
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It's conditions outside the sun which are most difficult to achieve, like the vacuum of space with millions of miles of separation between ongoing fusion and matter that's able to exist in a solid state.
... not to mention Obama Suni muslim retard culture completely destroying the scholarly structures of the West...
How do they contain that amount of heat?
Oh, Star Trek warp core containment field...learn sumpthin new here every day!
lol. yes.
They call it the Buenos Aires Syndrome over there.
Tokamak reactors are very old RUSSIAN technology.
That’s great, so where is that Flying Car I was promised 50 Years ago? I saw it on the cover of Popular Mechanics.
“So how does it not melt its containment vessel?”
The containment isn’t a “vessel”, it’s a magnetic field :)
Don’t forget the z-pinch!
Vacuum and magnetic fields keep it from touching anything solid.
They call it Starkirrer Base
MacGyver thinks that's cute.
Now THAT is some funny shite!
So what is the actual fuel source here? Is hydrogen the fuel or is it a byproduct of the reaction?
I have read similar stories and headlines since the early 1960s. Yes, the 102 second long plasma is an achievement, but the Chinese have not (nor has anyone else) demonstrated a path to generating large amounts of energy in a controlled fashion by the methods they are employing.
I wish the Chinese (and all the other physicists) working on controlled nuclear fusion (both hot and frigid) the best. But until we understand how to “create an artificial star” and keep it contained here on earth, I do not expect to see the headline: “Physicists Continue to Generate Energy from Experimental Fusion Plant” with the first line reading, “Physicists at Energy for All have been generating began operating a power plant in the desert of the American Southwest seven days ago. They are have been generating 100 Megawatts of power continuously since then.
I wonder what the 'fossil' fuel investment in that project is so far. Mining, refining, smelting, milling, transportation, construction, etc...
In before “Uranus”
The small scale limits the absolute energy and dissipates the energy into the plasma, and the plasma is kept away from contact with the vessels by an extremely strong toroidal shaped magnetic containment field interacting with the electrically charged plasma. Past experiments failed when the magnetic field failed to contain the plasma and permit a sustained reaction.
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