China's $1 trillion 'artificial sun' fusion reactor just got five times hotter than the sun

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The experimental fusion reactor could help to unlock near limitless clean energy.

Keeping the turbulent and superheated coils of plasma in place long enough for nuclear fusion to happen, however, has been a painstaking process. Soviet scientist Natan Yavlinsky designed the first tokamak in 1958, but no one has ever managed to create an experimental reactor that is able to put out more energy than it takes in.

One of the main stumbling blocks has been how to handle a plasma that's hot enough to fuse. Fusion reactors require very high temperatures — many times hotter than the sun — because they have to operate at much lower pressures than where fusion naturally takes place inside the cores of stars.

 

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Fascinating development.

strayatrader did they put me in a reactor

Pure lie, nothing can withstand such an extreme temperature.

Still colder than a mcdonalds apple pie

Boy when they want rice they mean right now so what it for the pallets of their own money we got US dola nowwa

At least some intelligent people have kept at it 🙏 - while America is in the midst of their Jerry Springer Civil War

SxSun is Lightning. So why not call it Artificial Lightning or Thor's Hammer

Where’s ours ? Seriously where is it 🤷‍♂️

Amazing darling.vbr

How?

What happens when they can't turn it off and it burns a hole through the earth?

¿Cómo a la temperatura del sol la materia sólida se funde y aquí, con cinco veces su calor, no pasa nada? How at the temperature of the sun does solid matter melt and here, with five times its heat, nothing happens?

whaaaat!?!

That implies that there exists a container that can withstand temperatures greater than that of the sun. That had to exist before the experiment began. Why, then, are we not building a probe made of that stuff and firing it at the sun?

Great. Now we’ll have to pay for sunshine.

I have seen this pop up all over the place someone’s propaganda machine overhyping a pretty cool achievement- it’s a tokamak, it’s not new.

China maintains 'artificial sun' at 120 million Celsius for over 100 seconds, setting new world record

Usefull for what?

😀

All set to ward off an ice age that's just around the corner no more than 3,000 years from now.

China is gonna kill us all for good

I will wait until they are sold on Aliexpress

Oh yeah like it did that…

Great, use it next to solar panels so they melt

And I cant feel it here on earth?

1 trillion dollars impossible that's is an extremely large amount of money , from Wikipedia the fusion reactor have a total cost of 37 million dollars ' only ' .

I am 50 times hotter than sun

Are you sure about $1T? Is it maybe 1T CNY? That would be $156B but even that would be a bit much... The multi-national ITER project has a total budget of around $20-30B.

Just what global warming needs--a space heater.

Meanwhile over here all the hype is about Kim Kardashian getting a new boyfriend, they barely even talk about JWST.

joerichlaw It’s not based anywhere near Wuhan is it…? askingforafriend

feeling sad -why can't we do this - we have spent millions and have been trying for years. I guess when the Government says to do it - someone does.

Didn't realise Doc Brown had that kind of capital lying about for his fusion reactor. Must have ripped off the Chinese as well as the Libyans.

Oh-My-GodOmniabsolute=Universe's-Gravity: Thus, this the kind of ENERGY Earthlings need to encenterate the PLASTICWASTE on EARTH. Albeit, let's get started on a remote ISLAND in the center of one or all the OCEANS. = No more PLASTIC-WASTE on EARTH. ( Hooray and Yippee)...

!!!!!!!!

Didn't the LHC cost like only 5 billion?

Peli_Comic

Han invested in their ppl. They invested in their people's skills. Asian countries all have... US didn't. US instead invested in foreign ppl and foreign nations and continued a cycle of exporting jobs, skills, etc. Same for Europe. Everyone but their own ...

Astaga naga...opo iki

Nearly as hot as the filling in a McDonald's apple pie

Thats alot of potential wind turbines

$1 trillion ?...

m_windridge 🤩

Lies, nothing has ever gotten close to the sun. But this artificial reactor has been close to people 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

Doomsday machine

Juste ouf

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