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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If China acquires viable nuclear fusion power, it will be six months (and a $100mil contribution to the Chelsea for President fund) after we develop it.
So how does it not melt its containment vessel?
good grief...
what could possibly go wrong with creating a sun...
wow, I will be amazed if mankind doesn’t off itself by accident before I grow old.
lol....
So, you’re suggesting that the science is the same as that with Global Warming?
He did not make free electricity rain down on America but hendid give us a pedantic moral superiority!
Probably because the US program is a bottomless money pit.
I bet they all are.
And how is that going to power my car?
“I’m sorry. I’m not Tony Stark.”
Indees. Tokamak is not the only way to produce fusion. Amongst others are particle colliders, laser arrays, x-ray lasers and electically driven implosions of wires at temperature high enough to create x-rays.
...take that you imperialistic pigs!
From what I read of laser arrays, it does sound interesting and it is fueled by continuing development of laser technology.
The vessel is in a shape of the magnetic fields driven by a core. These magnetic fields keep the plasma contained in a ball of “fire” which does not touch the container which remains insulated by a vacuum, I believe.
I once sold Taiwan products to that place...
magnets..
That’s YUGE!
Lol.
Yep. There are many unsolved problems of efficiency and dissipation. My high school buddy solved part of the problem in the Tokamak in his paper on the Landau damping. He got the Fields Medal for it (Cedric Villani) and there will be a need for mathematicians like him in the future. It takes 40 years to make a mathematician like this and have him decide one day to solve a problem if he wants to. We are a long way off, especially in nowaday’s climate of praising retards like Obama or Sanders who want to give all this money to liberal art kids on pot.
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