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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 ...
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...
LOL! Keep the funding rolling in. Success is JUST over the horizon.
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.
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?
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:-)
What could possibly go wrong? Talk about your global warming.
8,600 TIMES HOTTER THAN THE SUN.
ON EARTH.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
“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
As we well know, power interruptions can NEVER occur, and mistakes are IMPOSSIBRU!
It mentions something about an intense magnetic field that prevents the plasma from touching the sides of the containment vessel.
Of course, Communist science is ahead of American. Of course.
They are not as blinded by marxist ideology as we are.
“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.
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.
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.
102 seconds?
The Russians, who seemed to be the leaders in this technology, have only mastered fractions of a second.
The Chinese did this a few days after the NORKS blew up their hydrogen bomb....coincidence????, I think not.
You're kidding.....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.
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