Posted on 02/10/2016 9:00:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
SCIENTISTS in China are a step closer to creating an 'artificial sun' using nuclear fusion, in a breakthrough that could break mankind's reliance on fossil fuels and offer unlimited clean energy forever more.
Chinese experts last week successfully produced hydrogen gas more than three times hotter than the core of the Sun.
Crucially, the scientists were able to maintain that temperature -- 50 million degrees C -- for 102 seconds.
The experiment means nuclear fusion experts are a step nearer to replacing depleting fossil fuels with limitless nuclear energy powered by the ultra-high temperature gas.
Until now, Germany has been at the forefront of the quest for nuclear fusion after physicists there used 2 megawatts of microwave radiation to heat hydrogen gas to 80 million C -- but only for a fraction of a second.
Last week's experiment in China, which took place at the Institute of Physical Science in Hefei using a magnetic fusion reactor, heralded a massive leap in atomic research.
The reactor, officially known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), heated hydrogen gas to around 50 million Kelvins (49.999 million degrees Celsius), which is equal to a medium-scale thermonuclear explosion.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
102 seconds?................
Probably using stolen US technology.
Let me know when they reach 102 Months.....................
Probably only 10 years away.
Dubbed the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the reactor heated hydrogen gas to about 50 million Kelvins (49.999 million°C).
For comparison, the interior of the sun is believed to be around 15 million Kelvins.
Its OK. Who cares that other nations are leaping past us in new forms of energy?
We recognize the mentally ill transgendered in our government bureaucracies.
We are clearly the more advance society.
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Measured with a really long thermometer. Question is, where did they stick it???
Tony Stark built that in a cave.
From a box of scraps.
The article doesnt mention US efforts, such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
“Probably only 10 years away.”
It’s been 10 years away for the past 40 years, and probably always will be.
One small step for China, one giant step toward cleaner, cheaper energy.
PIKERS!!!
Its been 10 years away for the past 40 years, and probably always will be.
Lawrence Livermore has been doing this for the longest time I can think of.
Here is an article from 2008:
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While it has seemed an impossible goal for nearly 100 years, scientists now believe that they are on brink of cracking one of the biggest problems in physics by harnessing the power of nuclear fusion, the reaction that burns at the heart of the sun.
In the spring, a team will begin attempts to ignite a tiny man-made star inside a laboratory and trigger a thermonuclear reaction.
Its goal is to generate temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Celsius and pressures billions of times higher than those found anywhere else on earth, from a speck of fuel little bigger than a pinhead. If successful, the experiment will mark the first step towards building a practical nuclear fusion power station and a source of almost limitless energy.
At a time when fossil fuel supplies are dwindling and fears about global warming are forcing governments to seek clean energy sources, fusion could provide the answer. Hydrogen, the fuel needed for fusion reactions, is among the most abundant in the universe. Building work on the £1.2 billion nuclear fusion experiment is due to be completed in spring.
Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, nestled among the wine-producing vineyards of central California, will use a laser that concentrates 1,000 times the electric generating power of the United States into a billionth of a second.
The result should be an explosion in the 32ft-wide reaction chamber which will produce at least 10 times the amount of energy used to create it.
“We are creating the conditions that exist inside the sun,” said Ed Moses, director of the facility. “It is like tapping into the real solar energy as fusion is the source of all energy in the world. It is really exciting physics, but beyond that there are huge social, economic and global problems that it can help to solve.”
Yeah, and self driving cars are coming in a couple of years.
The accomplishment is indeed impressive, but they are not at the Jedi level yet.
What could go wrong?
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