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End of fossil fuels? China close to creating 'ARTIFICIAL STAR' three times hotter than the sun
Daily Express ^ | 02/10/2016 | Tom Batchelor

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: china; fusion
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To: SeekAndFind

So the new fear will be of living in a distant future on a waterless planet where everyone sounds like Donald Duck or Alvin and the Chipmunks...


61 posted on 02/10/2016 10:13:31 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: RFEngineer

LOL! Keep the funding rolling in. Success is JUST over the horizon.


62 posted on 02/10/2016 10:14:54 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

That’s the question we’re not supposed to ask. Fossil fuels are the other side of the coin for Electric Cars and other types of ‘new’ energy. I think it also takes a lot of fossil fuel use to produce Ethanol as well. That fact is rarely brought up for full disclosure and discussion.


63 posted on 02/10/2016 10:17:21 AM PST by lee martell
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To: ClearCase_guy

Did you notice (if I recall correctly) that the scientist who replies “Well I’m not Tony Stark” is played by Ralphie from A Christmas Story?


64 posted on 02/10/2016 10:19:19 AM PST by madconservative
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To: SeekAndFind

nearer to replacing depleting fossil fuels... Far from depleted. Not even sure if it’s from fossils as to the amount found and used since it’s discovery. Makes me think it’s something the earth produces almost naturally:-)


65 posted on 02/10/2016 10:19:55 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: SeekAndFind

What could possibly go wrong? Talk about your global warming.


66 posted on 02/10/2016 10:21:28 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SeekAndFind

8,600 TIMES HOTTER THAN THE SUN.

ON EARTH.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG.


67 posted on 02/10/2016 10:24:36 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,” ~ Rev 9:1


68 posted on 02/10/2016 10:26:31 AM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: lavaroise
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.

As we well know, power interruptions can NEVER occur, and mistakes are IMPOSSIBRU!


69 posted on 02/10/2016 10:27:21 AM PST by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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To: JimRed

It mentions something about an intense magnetic field that prevents the plasma from touching the sides of the containment vessel.


70 posted on 02/10/2016 10:27:34 AM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course, Communist science is ahead of American. Of course.


71 posted on 02/10/2016 10:29:57 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: backwoods-engineer

They are not as blinded by marxist ideology as we are.


72 posted on 02/10/2016 10:51:56 AM PST by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: JimRed

“So how does it not melt vaporize its containment vessel and everything around it?”

The containment vessel is magnetic fields. So the hydrogen reacting doesn’t touch anything that melts.

The key statistic that they DON’T give is how much energy went in and how much came out. It takes a lot of energy to run a Tokamak.

I’m not sure how they address your melting problem when they want to get the energy out in a useful form.


73 posted on 02/10/2016 11:19:49 AM PST by ModelBreaker (')
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To: SeekAndFind; All
At a time when fossil fuel supplies are dwindling and fears about global warming are forcing governments to seek clean energy sources, fusion could provide the answer.

Hmmmmm, have to question these premises.
74 posted on 02/10/2016 11:25:51 AM PST by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: discostu
And how is that going to power my car?
If fusion power gets cheap enough, battery powered cars will become (more) practical. Fusion fuel might be nearly free - but somebody will have to pay for the reactor.

75 posted on 02/10/2016 11:34:33 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Vast quantities of ifs and buts in there. Really I’m calling into question the headline, there’s a good half dozen serious technological leaps between this and the end of fossil fuel.


76 posted on 02/10/2016 11:36:27 AM PST by discostu (This is a different kind of flying... all together.)
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To: SeekAndFind

102 seconds?

The Russians, who seemed to be the leaders in this technology, have only mastered fractions of a second.


77 posted on 02/10/2016 1:57:18 PM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: SeekAndFind
my microwave did that once when I pressed "beverage"...talk about HOT coffee!!!

The Chinese did this a few days after the NORKS blew up their hydrogen bomb....coincidence????, I think not.

78 posted on 02/10/2016 2:17:01 PM PST by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL!)
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To: Hot Tabasco
50 million degrees C -- for 102 seconds. How do they contain that amount of heat?

You're kidding.....my oven has a SPRING LOADED door and a silicone gasket that goes all around it....what more do you need?????

79 posted on 02/10/2016 2:25:38 PM PST by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL!)
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To: terycarl
my oven has a SPRING LOADED door and a silicone gasket that goes all around it....what more do you need?????

Good point, never thought about that. That would explain all the burnt food that comes out of mine.......thanks.

80 posted on 02/10/2016 2:32:37 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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