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Korea's Fusion Reactor Ran 7 Times Hotter Than The Sun For Almost 30 Seconds
Science Alert ^
| 9/9/2022
| AVID NIELD
Posted on 09/09/2022 7:02:28 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
Korea's 'artificial Sun' reactor has made headlines this week by officially sustaining plasma at a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius for more than 20 seconds.
The team at the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device reached an ion temperature of above 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit).
According to New Scientist, the reaction was only stopped after 30 seconds because of hardware limitations.
KSTAR uses magnetic fields to generate and stabilize ultra-hot plasma, with the ultimate aim of making nuclear fusion power a reality.
You can see the footage below showing the reactor run over 24 seconds, and achieving a temperature of more than 10^8 Kelvin – which is more or less equivalent to 100 million degrees Celsius.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
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Amazing news. Now...can the experiment be reproduced? We'll see.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Amazingly.... fueled by Obama’s hot air.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
What could possibly go wrong?
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Put another shrimp on the barbi.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The greenies will find something wrong with it.
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:10:12 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
You could make a lot of s’mores over that.
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:10:44 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
LOLOL..."10
8 Kelvin – which is more or less equivalent to 100 million degrees Celsius"
Off by 273.15 degrees. 273.15 out of 100,000,000...I guess we can accept that rounding error. What's the accuracy of the 100 million measurement in the first place? 10%? 20%?
Just because you have a calculator that can give you 12 decimal points of precision doesn't mean you should pretend that a 12 decimal point number is valid or useful.
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:10:53 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable and Clinger, but I've been promoted to Ultra-MAGA”)
To: butlerweave
“It’s hotter than hell”
Good. Now freeze it and the Lions might win the Superbowl.
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:11:42 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Well, that’s just great. Just yesterday I got the fusion reactor in my basement to run at a temperature of 100 million C for 9 seconds. And already my record has been broken.
Here I am with my reactor. I think I’m going to tear it down and go back to gardening as a hobby.
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:13:07 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
To: oldernittany
"Hardware Limitations"
Paid spokesperson talk for "Could have killed us all and Bob had to turn it off".
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:16:42 AM PDT
by
blackdog
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
So they briefly re-created summer in Texas.
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:17:07 AM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The Sun sees this and says, “Oh yeah?...
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:18:06 AM PDT
by
fidelis
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Great! Now we are only 20 years away from fusion power!
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:19:44 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts; SunkenCiv; SuperLuminal
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:20:07 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
Big whoop. I live in Phoenix and that’s like an average July day around here.
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:20:07 AM PDT
by
fidelis
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
How can nuclear fusion work in a laboratory inasmuch as it is enormous gravity, unproduceable here on earth, that produces it in the sun?
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:20:15 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:22:02 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
7 seconds? Impressive if true. But...being the Norks, it’s probably Professor Kim’s Home Fusion Kit, where the plastic temp gauge has a printed paper sticker on the front with the needle permanently pegged all the way to the right.
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posted on
09/09/2022 7:22:04 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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