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China Close To Creating ‘Artificial Sun’ That Could End Reliance On Fossil Fuels
Yahoo.com ^
Posted on 02/11/2016 6:17:01 AM PST by TigerClaws
Chinese scientists have managed to create a hydrogen gas that is three times hotter than the sun.
The artificial solar energy could eventually be used as an inexhaustible source of power, ending reliance on fossil fuels and solving the world energy crisis.
Chinese boffins created the gas in a huge magnetic fusion reactor at the Institute of Physical Science in Hefei.
Invented by Soviet scientists in the 1950s, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) features a massive metallic doughtnut-shaped chamber twisted into a figure of eight.
Researchers were able to use the reactor to produce temperatures of 50 million Kelvins (49.999 million°C) and maintain them for 102 seconds.
The core of the sun is believed to around 15 million Kelvins.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: artificialsun
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From a few days ago but a big deal I just read about this morning. Talk about Middle East chaos if this tehnology works...
To: TigerClaws
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:18:33 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: TigerClaws
I am all for the end of fossil fuels as long as it doesn’t negatively impact our lifestyle. If, by magic, they could snap their fingers and replace every fossil fuel provider with some other kind of energy, sign me up.
But so far that’s fantasy.
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:24:21 AM PST
by
Personal Responsibility
(We are in the time where telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
A black hole will consume us next.
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:24:40 AM PST
by
refermech
To: TigerClaws
They’re doing similar work in Europe with Project ITER.
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:25:35 AM PST
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: TigerClaws
Wait until the global warming crowd hears this...
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:26:05 AM PST
by
SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: TigerClaws
The 1 Second Thanksgiving Turkey
Preheat oven to 50 million Kelvins ..
(Wear oven mitts)
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:27:07 AM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: TigerClaws
China creates artificial cities and artificial economy so why not an artificial sun?
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:28:03 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: TigerClaws
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:38:19 AM PST
by
Bratch
To: TigerClaws
These are only claims so far.
The big issue is to be able to move the “waste heat” away fast enough, and on a continuing basis.
Providing new coolant fast enough is tough....oh....and you want a backup system or two.....
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:41:40 AM PST
by
G Larry
(ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
To: TigerClaws
ending reliance on fossil fuels and solving the world energy crisis. What energy crisis? Energy is cheaper and more plentiful than it has been in decades.
Oh that's right it's the pretend crisis that if we don't eliminate the production of CO2 we're all going to die.
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:47:25 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: TigerClaws
They should test it in North Korea, just in case
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:51:33 AM PST
by
bigbob
("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
To: TigerClaws
Invented by Soviet scientists in the 1950s . . . That's a reassuring credential right there.
To: refermech
That, of course, ends our dependence on fossil fuels.
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02/11/2016 6:52:04 AM PST
by
GingisK
To: TigerClaws
RUMOR INT HAS THAT WE'VF HAD THIS FOR A LONG TIME. OUR 2ND GENERATION H BOMB WAS CAPABLE OF THIS. </RUMOR INT
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:56:46 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: TigerClaws
Could it be used to kill an approaching asteroid?
Or to just get to the point, can it be weaponized?
Or miniaturized?
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posted on
02/11/2016 6:57:21 AM PST
by
Daniel Ramsey
(You don't have to like Trump, his enemies certainly don't.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
“boffins?”
Aren’t those a specie of puffins? ;-)
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posted on
02/11/2016 7:00:09 AM PST
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: TexasRepublic
They run the Puffin Picture Book print shop, apparently.
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posted on
02/11/2016 7:06:21 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: TigerClaws
The article says China is “close” to creating an artificial sun, but I suspect it would be years before this science could be made practical in an industrial sense.
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posted on
02/11/2016 7:09:51 AM PST
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Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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