Posted on 09/24/2022 10:43:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Over the past few years, researchers and a growing number of startups have made claims about bringing the world closer and closer to nuclear fusion — but the reality is far less impressive than that, with expensive reactors still requiring far more energy to get started than they are able to put out.
China's new reactor will essentially replicate the detonation of a thermonuclear bomb by producing powerful electric pulses. These pulses generate enough pressure to fuse atoms together, a process which releases energy.
In fact, all the preceding "Z-pinch" reactors that have been built around the world so far have failed to generate more energy than they needed to produce these pulses, as the SCMP reports.
After being completed in 2025, the claim is that the plant will go on to produce nuclear fusion energy by 2028, tech that will be ready for commercial adoption by 2035, according to Peng — a highly ambitious timeline, to say the least.
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They can use it to power the moon base they’re going to build.
All good and fine, but we can SIMULATE controlled fusion better than them, and it’s FAR CHEAPER to do so.
Fission-Fusion = Confusion???
“They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.
So, finally man will have harnessed the power of the atom
to boil water...to make steam...to generate electricity?
There has to be a better way...
Bkmk
What is that from?
Chernobyl.
LOL.
We are falling behind the rest of the world at a furious pace. Agenda 21 in action.
But, thanks to China’s worldwide propaganda campaign, we are about to learn even more how wonderful life is under the CCP and all of the miracles it has have wrought and soon will show all of us in the non-Han world.
The Chinese can claim whatever they want. It ain’t a gonna happen
What ever happened to Thorium reactors? They are safer and cheaper than uranium, and less problem with long-term storage of spent material.
Don’t need fusion. Safe and efficient Molten-Salt Thorium Reactors can be built today, if only we had the political will to do so. But noooo, we have put up short-lived solar arrays and bird-killing windmills.
This is just a stunt. Basically using fusion to kickstart fission. Regular fission is about as cheap or cheaper.
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