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End of fossil fuels? China close to creating 'ARTIFICIAL STAR' three times hotter than the sun
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| 02/10/2016
| Tom Batchelor
Posted on 02/10/2016 9:00:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
âWe are creating the conditions that exist inside the sun,â 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.
To: RFEngineer
... not to mention Obama Suni muslim retard culture completely destroying the scholarly structures of the West...
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posted on
02/10/2016 9:38:17 AM PST
by
lavaroise
(A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall noshi)
To: SeekAndFind
50 million degrees C -- for 102 seconds.
How do they contain that amount of heat?
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posted on
02/10/2016 9:39:27 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Dear Santa: Please find a home for every homeless and unwanted cat and dog that is suffering)
To: lavaroise
The vessel is in a shape of the magnetic fields driven by a core.Oh, Star Trek warp core containment field...learn sumpthin new here every day!
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posted on
02/10/2016 9:39:30 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
To: JimRed
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posted on
02/10/2016 9:40:46 AM PST
by
lavaroise
(A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall noshi)
To: RckyRaCoCo
The China Syndrome..in reverse.They call it the Buenos Aires Syndrome over there.
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posted on
02/10/2016 9:41:37 AM PST
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: Sasparilla
Tokamak reactors are very old RUSSIAN technology.
To: SeekAndFind
That’s great, so where is that Flying Car I was promised 50 Years ago? I saw it on the cover of Popular Mechanics.
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posted on
02/10/2016 9:43:57 AM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Get the CDS and TDS Vaccines before it's too late.)
To: JimRed
“So how does it not melt its containment vessel?”
The containment isn’t a “vessel”, it’s a magnetic field :)
To: lavaroise
Don’t forget the z-pinch!
To: JimRed
So how does it not melt its containment vessel? Vacuum and magnetic fields keep it from touching anything solid.
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posted on
02/10/2016 9:52:14 AM PST
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: SeekAndFind
China close to creating 'ARTIFICIAL STAR' three times hotter than the sun...They call it Starkirrer Base
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posted on
02/10/2016 9:57:10 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: ClearCase_guy
Tony Stark built that in a cave.
From a box of scraps.MacGyver thinks that's cute.
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posted on
02/10/2016 9:59:19 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: SeekAndFind
Now THAT is some funny shite!
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posted on
02/10/2016 10:00:04 AM PST
by
Cyman
To: SeekAndFind
So what is the actual fuel source here? Is hydrogen the fuel or is it a byproduct of the reaction?
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posted on
02/10/2016 10:01:10 AM PST
by
Revel
To: SeekAndFind
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.
To: lee martell
One small step for China, one giant step toward cleaner, cheaper energy.I wonder what the 'fossil' fuel investment in that project is so far. Mining, refining, smelting, milling, transportation, construction, etc...
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posted on
02/10/2016 10:07:20 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Kickass Conservative
That's great, so where is that Flying Car I was promised 50 Years ago? I saw it on the cover of Popular Mechanics.
They were also asking the same question...
To: rjsimmon
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posted on
02/10/2016 10:10:34 AM PST
by
webheart
(We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
To: JimRed
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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posted on
02/10/2016 10:11:00 AM PST
by
WhiskeyX
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