Chinese Fusion Experiment Reaches 100 Million Degrees

Universe Today ^ | 11/18/2018

[blackdog]

Just like Matt Damon grew potatoes on Mars, Kenue Reeves figured out that whole containment issue of fusion reactors. Really. We all saw it.

[Centurion2000]

That video said that if you heated 1 table spoon (or was it a gram?) of matter to 10,000,000 degrees and sustained it, it would kill everyone in a 1000 miles.

You were watching fearmongering doom porn.
You could have a bloody tablespoon of pure antimatter at 10 million degrees and it wouldn't kill everyone within 1000 miles.

What it would do is EXPLODE like a strategic nuclear warhead on an MX missile.

[Centurion2000]

What will be the possible consequences of China getting commercially viable nuclear fusion before we do?

They get about a 1-2 year head start on everyone else making fusion reactors.
They also get bragging rights for freeing the human race from energy dependence on fossil fuels. Quite a coup, but that's it.

[samtheman]

Kind of what I expected. Unless they try to enforce some kind of patent restrictions and lock the rest of us out.