Posted on 02/09/2016 1:41:50 PM PST by Reeses
Physicists in China have sustained hydrogen plasma at 49.999 million degrees for 102 seconds, beating Germany's recent record (which was just a quarter of a second).
SUSTAINING THE HEAT
Barely a week after Germany's latest Stellerator reactor was able to sustain a cloud of hydrogen plasma for a quarter of a second at 80 million degrees Celsius, news from China indicated that Germany might now have new competition on the block.
Chinese physicists have announced that their own nuclear fusion reactor, called the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), has produced and sustained hydrogen plasma at 49.999 million degrees Celsius for 102 seconds.
To put that into context, the team, which hails from China's Institute of Physical Science, states that they were able to create hydrogen and heat it to conditions mimicking what we find at the center of stars. And they were able to sustain these conditions for over a minute.
These milestones, that of Germany and China, represent a proof of concept for controlled nuclear fusion. Through these experiments, scientists could eventually come to manipulate the plasma away from the walls of the reactor and harness the energy and particles that it releases. If these records could be outclassed in the future, it would go a long way to achieving clean, limitless energy for our needs.
HOTTER THAN THE SUN
In contrast to nuclear fission, nuclear fusion is able to produce huge amounts of energy without any radioactive waste or the costs needed to manage nuclear byproducts.
(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...
It produces a lot less radioactive waste than fission. However, I strongly suspect the Chinese claims are exaggerated by at least an order of 10, if not 100.
......but could a drunk redneck light a cigarette with it?
Fusion power possible in next 10 years, speculate scientists.
We can’t have that! Where’s the EPA when you need it? Our children will grow up in a hydrogenless world unless we act now to save all those baby hydrogens from being burnt alive!
Without independent verification and reproduction I view Chicom claims akin to Kim Jong Il’s perfect bowling games.
There was a time when that would have made me chuckle. Not anymore. China will own us. We've squandered our own destiny.
It’s no big deal, I saw them do that on “Dual Survival” with a rock and a stick. Spun the stick really fast, fire lasted way more the 102 seconds and wasn’t radioactive either.
50 million degrees? Wow, that’s almost as hot as the center of the earth!
/algore
Once...
Basically we’re just gonna blow up one day. Won’t even have time to wonder what happened.
No lie about that. The fusion reaction produces only high energy neutrons, which can’t travel very far before they are absorbed by heavy surrounding walls of the reactor. There are no radioactive, heavy metal isotopes produced.
Man! You could cook a steak like ... THAT [snap]!
Oops ? What do you mean oops ??? Oops is not good.
My gut reaction as well. At least NK didn't claim it first.
Hydrogen is easy.
China Government Education: Studying Math, Science, and how to out-fox Western Civilization in manufacturing & trade!
I guess they want their fried rice they chew-on a bit warmer.
“......but could a drunk redneck light a cigarette with it?”
Yes. Once.
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