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 ...
How in hell do they plan contain that heat no matter how tiny the reaction is?
Or is this "Blind Science" wherein the researchers say, "Not my job, we're just concerned with one upping Satan and his puny Hellfire...you know, like Wuhan Labs."
what could possibly go wrong?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The PRC won’t have to use bio-warfare like they have with Covid-19 to exterminate their capitalist enemies.
They can simply incinerate their enemies with plasma cannons.Over in an instant.
That movie was just eeeehhhhhhhhh.
Nuclear is not clean power, ask the Japanese.
China just broke the world with the flu, imagine the possibilities with this.
“. I assume this was doin in a vacuum so the question is how do you extract the energy?”
It was done in a Hoover upright and the energy was extracted by emptying the bag.
B O O M !
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“216million°F”
Color me skeptical.
So, how long to cook a Hot Pocket?
When that thing goes BOOM I wonder how big the fallout area will be.
Gee, isn't that going to cause global warming if done on a large scale?
But it’s a dry heat.
“what could possibly go wrong?”
The reactor is 200 miles northeast of Wuhan. Just saying.
I got dibs on the plot for the next Godzilla movie.
Would be awful shame if their software got a virus!
Soup for my family.
216 million, for a minute and forty seconds? Was everything in its vicinity vaporized? And pray tell, how was the temperature measured?
There was a James Bond movie...A MAN WITH A GOLDEN GUN...
Scaramanga had a device to convert solar power...Solex agitator...
Thanks for your correction. I do hope your pedantic urges are fulfilled as a result, even though you completely missed the point.
And, technically, thorium isn't split. It namely isn't fissile but rather fertile (i.e., can be converted into a fissile material through the absorption of neutrons).
Regards,
Science!
As already stated numerous times in this thread (but unfortunately not in the article itself), the confinement chamber in which the fusion takes place in these Earth-bound fusion reactors is typically kept at a near vacuum - comparable to the near vacuum prevailing within the Earth's thermosphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosphere
The Earth's thermosphere is a layer of our atmosphere. The thermosphere is hundreds of km thick and completely surrounds our planet. The thermosphere has a temperature of about 2,000 °C. But if you could hold a thermometer in it, it would hardly register, because the thermosphere is so very attenuated.
Class dismissed.
Regards,
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