China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough
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#3It's unfortunate that it's like this, but I automatically do not believe any scientific breakthroughs that come from China.
There has simply been too much fraud for me to believe anything they say.
http://www.sciencealert.com/80-of-the-data-in-chinese-clinic...
Re: China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough
#4Anyone remember that really old game Outpost? It ran on Windows 3.1; used a CD recording of The Planets as its soundtrack. That's the first time I've heard of Tokamak reactors.
What these are trying to achieve is pretty amazing. I hope one day, one of these reactors will be able to sustain a greater output than input. It has the potential to move the planet into a completely different energy age. Imagine if we could build something with that kind of energy output on Mars.
Re: China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough
#5"This is not the first time that EAST has generated enduring plasma. In 2012, plasma in a similar environment was maintained for 32 seconds, breaking the world record at that time. Since then, EAST has had its tungsten diverters and auxiliary heating system upgraded, laying the foundation to create long-pulse, high-confinement plasma.
Officially established in 2006, the EAST fusion reactor is run by the Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei, which aims for plasma pulses lasting up to 1,000 seconds."
6 years after establishment, it got to 3.2% of its goal. What was the new record time?
Re: China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough
#6For someone more knowledgeable about the state of fusion research: is this really a "breakthrough" or just another incremental step? It seems they only kept it stable for about twice as long as they did four year ago and that's not much of a breakthrough even if we did break the arbitrary one minute limit (or maybe its not arbitrary and becomes harder to keep stable approaching a minute for some reason?)
At this point it seems that the only real breakthroughs we can make in fusion research is maybe another technique like magnetic or inertial confinement and a power neutral/positive reactor, along with breakthroughs in orthogonal fields like material science.
Re: China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough
#7It's unfortunate that it's like this, but I automatically do not believe any scientific breakthroughs that come from China. There has simply been too much fraud for me to believe anything they say. http://www.sciencealert.com/80-of-the-data-in-chinese-clinic...
Utah had cold fusion, anyone remember that? Fusion research is tricky to evaluate (and false positive results are common).
Re: China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough
#8"This is not the first time that EAST has generated enduring plasma. In 2012, plasma in a similar environment was maintained for 32 seconds, breaking the world record at that time. Since then, EAST has had its tungsten diverters and auxiliary heating system upgraded, laying the foundation to create long-pulse, high-confinement plasma. Officially established in 2006, the EAST fusion reactor is run by the Institute of…
102 seconds.
Re: China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough
#9Anyone remember that really old game Outpost? It ran on Windows 3.1; used a CD recording of The Planets as its soundtrack. That's the first time I've heard of Tokamak reactors. What these are trying to achieve is pretty amazing. I hope one day, one of these reactors will be able to sustain a greater output than input. It has the potential to move the planet into a completely different energy age. Imagine if we could…
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Re: China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough
#10Just a quick note that this report comes from people.cn, a mouthpiece media of the CCP. Perhaps more coverage from other sources would make this more persuasive.