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 ...
I’m confident that the.....*checks article*......the Koreans.....will use this scientific advance for the good of all humanity.
Lol!
“The greenies will find something wrong with it.”
Yes, they certainly will.
Obviously if successful, controlled fusion will warm the planet and must be banned. /rimshot
My question is what kind of hardware can survive that temperature for even a second without being vaporized?
Korea? Is that a country? I’ve heard of North Korea. I’ve heard of South Korea. Was this a joint country project?
“Hardware Limitations”
Paid spokesperson talk for “Could have killed us all and Bob had to turn it off”.
LOL. In this case Hay-Long had to turn it off. Is there even a material that can safely enclose something at 100 million degrees C for an extended period of time?
“Magnetic confinement”.
Gravity isn’t the only way to heat things. Electricity also works (tokamak), as do focused laser beams (inertial confinement).
What ever happened to the two guys that said they made cold Fusion?.
Clever people, these Koreans.
Still thirty years away from becoming technically sustainable.
ALL fusion energy schemes are “delayed” by “thirty years”.
The perfect whimsical lyric. You win. It's simple, it's perfect. Well played.
“Korea? Is that a country?”
I didn’t know North and South Korea reunited.
Marko
Nice. No mention of plasma density though.
“The greenies will find something wrong with it.”
Without a doubt, if it ever becomes practical.
Anything that actually works, they’re against.
What crappy and misleading headline...
Further down in the article...
“But it’s also worth noting that this advance by KSTAR isn’t necessarily a brand new record, as some media are touting.
In fact, KSTAR announced this breakthrough back in 2020, and we reported on it at the time. What’s changed now is their paper on the research has been peer-reviewed and has just been published in Nature.
However, in the years since, the KSTAR team has broken their own record, and China’s ‘artificial Sun’ known as EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak or HT-7U) has gone on to smash both of those.
In 2021, the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius (216 million degrees Fahrenheit) and clung onto it for 101 seconds.”
Limitless, safe, free, unlimited power - just right around the corner!
Again!
i still don’t understand how the heat doesn’t slag the whole thing down...
A magnetic bottle?
Impressive…
Part of what is impressive, is where this took place and where it hasn’t.
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