Posted on 06/03/2021 12:20:13 AM PDT by blueplum
China's nuclear fusion reactor set new world record by running at 216million°F It also achieved a peak temperature more than ten times hotter than the sun Scientists hope the 'artificial sun' will unlock a powerful green energy source Next aim to run at a consistent temperature for a week rather than 100 seconds
...The machine, China's largest and most advanced nuclear fusion experimental research device, uses a powerful magnetic field to fuse hot plasma.
It is designed to replicate the nuclear fusion process that occurs naturally in the sun and stars to provide almost infinite clean energy....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They should try cold fusion instead! much easier!
2. How large was this reaction? Usually in this type of experiments we are talking very small amounts, nanograms or less.
Riefenstahl and Goebbels would be proud of news like this.
CC
216 million degrees? F or C?
Either way, not nearly as hot as Melania Trump.
News from the most trustworthy government in the history of the world! China is going to save us all! Hail our slave masters in China! /s
And Sleepy 46 stops the drilling.
At least Gravity waves have finally been detected. It used to have the same reputation.
From the folks who brought you Covid.
The fusion took place in a near vacuum. But to a physicist, vacuums are relative. To a physicist, it isn't important whether the fusion took place at 1 Pascal, or 1 micro-Pascal. To a physicist, it isn't important whether it would - in practical terms - be easy or difficult to actually harvest that energy. He is elated that he succeeded in attaining controlled fusion. That is all that matters to him.
Yes, I suppose that only nanograms of matter were actually fused - though that would still yield / release a considerable amount of energy (which might even - if practically harvestable - be approx. equal to the amount needed to run the set-up, meaning that it would then be self-sustaining).
Regards,
The article is about fusion, not fission.
Fusion, like what powers the Sun.
Regards,
That’s almost as hot as Algore said the earth is.
Oh great, the world’s worst environmental polluter fooling around with technology that creates solar heat on the earth. What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe they’ll screw up fry themselves.
100%
Yes, but can it be used to illuminate a lightbulb? How about 2 lightbulbs?
Fusion (hydrogen to helium) not fusion (splitting thorium, uranium, or plutonium).
Taylor Wilson found widespread fame when he built his own nuclear reactor aged 14 in 2008.
The machine was capable of smashing atoms in a plasma core at over 500 million degrees Fahrenheit—40 times hotter than the core of the sun—in his parents' garage..
and:
Before the successes of these geniuses was David Hahn, known as the 'Radioactive Boy Scout’.
He built a nuclear reactor in his potting shed and shut down a neighbourhood of 40,000 in 1996..
Let’s see if they get massive solar flares like the Nic Cage flick “Knowing.”
Good one. Don’t forget Fauci.
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