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China to Launch ‘Artificial Sun’ Into Space That Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius
From its plans to harness and enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its vision of a solar highway planned into the not-too-distant future, China is strongly demonstrating its position as a technology trendsetter of the 21st century.
One of the most ambitious and forward-looking plans now involves the development of a magnetic nuclear fusion chamber that generates more heat than the sun. The doughnut-shaped chamber is being developed by a team of scientists based at the Institute of Plasma Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
They announced that the plasma heated inside of their Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) magnetic fusion chamber can produce unlimited energy. The plans come only one month after a local Chengdu-based tech company revealed its plans to launch a second moon into space by 2020, another sign of China’s building momentum in the energy sector.
Achieving a Breakthrough
Since the most tangible details began to emerge in 2012, the team has been making steady progress in terms of the energy harnessing capabilities of the reactor, although the project was first given the green-light by the Chinese government in 1998. The older version of the sun simulator revealed just two years ago had a diameter of five meters, heated the plasma inside to temperatures three times the sun’s heat (~50 million Kelvins) which could be maintained for 102 seconds.
Now, in this more efficient iteration–which has exceeded even the scientists’ expectations–they have upped the ante even more: The new reactor developed by the team at EAST stands 11 meters tall, can heat the plasma inside to temperatures six times the sun’s heat (100 million Celsius). Measuring eight meters wide and weighing in at 360 tons, it is not hard to imagine why the Chinese Academy of Sciences is proudly reporting the successful progress of the project.
Opening New Research Avenues
This development represents a win-win scenario, it seems, for science as well as the energy objectives of the Chinese government. As Australian National University Associate Professor of Physics Matthew Hole explains, “It’s certainly a significant step for China’s nuclear fusion program and an important development for the whole world. The benefit is simple in that it is a very large-scale baseload [continuous] energy production, with zero greenhouse gas emissions and no long-life radioactive waste.”
An ‘artificial sun’ in the East! China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting #Tokamak (EAST) reaches plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius and a heating power of 10 MW. #ITER can expect important input from this achievement. https://t.co/MNcmrdxbRZ
— ITER (@iterorg) November 14, 2018
Another sign of the enormous impact of this development is the endorsement of the work by the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the massive multinational initiative that aims to produce the world’s largest magnetic nuclear fusion device. It also sends the message that global energy aims will be a collaborative and cooperative process.
No doubt there is a long list of budgetary and feasibility issues that will need to be addressed to make the project a reality, but China should be commended for embracing a perspective on rising energy demands that involves bold and creative solutions. In these uncertain times, it is vital to continuously produce strategies that anticipate the challenges ahead.
21 Comments on "China to Launch ‘Artificial Sun’ Into Space That Reaches 100 Million Degrees Celsius"
Sissyfuss on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 8:33 am
Major breakthrough, now workable nuclear fusion is only 9 years, 11 months,and 30 days away.
TIKIMAN on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 8:55 am
Hokay…
Maybe those chinks need to stop oppressing their own people under communism first. Another retarded idea buy a genetically flawed race.
Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 9:44 am
please china and comrade putin, if you like your dictatorship you can keep it. don’t come around and steal my supertards tech. close up the intardweb in BOTH directions and boost domestic propaganda. i hear cuba and North Korea is like paradise. that’s the highest state of nirvana dictatorship. do it yo
Dredd on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 12:05 pm
What could go wrong?
Outcast_Searcher on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 12:14 pm
It doesn’t generate “more heat” than the sun – it briefly gets hotter than the sun.
Until it can reach stability for long periods of time, what’s the point (asides from P.R.) of putting it “in outer space” where it is difficult and expensive to reach?
When they clearly demonstrate practical, stable, comercially scale affordable, fusion — THEN they should market it.
I see no indication that they’re close to that.
Outcast_Searcher on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 12:19 pm
Tikiman, you need to work on your blatant racism and 3rd grade spelling (“by”, not “buy” for crying out loud) before being such a troll.
claes on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 3:13 pm
If humanity gets its hands of polution-free energy, there will be no end to human expansion, resulting in even more extinction amongst our other animal beings in this troubled biosphere.
For the moment being, humanity must be seen as a pest for all other living species on earth, and if nature figths back on it, maybe we should let it.
Maybe we should let major contagious disseases run its way. Maybe we shouldn’t find vaccines against common disseases that protects certain biotypes like malaria, yellow fever etc.
Give the biosphere a chance to fight back. We are a part of it, and when it dies we die
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 3:25 pm
Outcast
IEA Chief warns of world oil shortages by 2020 as discoveries fall to record lows
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iea-says-global-oil-discoveries-at-record-low-in-2016-1493244000
There will be an oil shortage in the 2020’s, Goldman Sachs says
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/09/goldman-sachs-there-will-be-an-oil-shortage-in-the-2020s.html
Growing demand for oil will lead to shortage and high prices in 2020s
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2185046-growing-demand-for-oil-will-lead-to-shortage-and-high-prices-in-2020s/
German Military (leaked) Peak Oil study: oil is used in the production of 95% of all industrial goods, so a shortage of oil would collapse the world economy & world governments
https://www.scribd.com/document/387459134/german
Imminent peak oil could burst US, global economic bubble – study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/nov/19/peak-oil-economicgrowth
I emailed Professor Douglas B Reynolds PhD, Oil and Energy Economics, University of Alaska.
http://uaf.edu/files/som/REYNOLDS-Doug-2016-CV.pdf
And I asked him if our upcoming oil shortage will cause a global economic collapse?
https://imgur.com/a/rBtIrfg
He replied;
“Yes, it will be like that, but may be worse with other extenuating circumstances such as war or the decline of international trade. Hyperinflation as happened in the Soviet and Post Soviet economy is a certainty.”
https://imgur.com/a/rktmHdt
Now back to the forum where you can censor the educated..You ignorant troll..Your chickens are coming home to roost!
Anonymouse on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 4:58 pm
And in a related story,
China to launch the expcetionaltard into a sinophobic frenzy. Any mention of China has been noted to cause the delusionists temperature to reach ~ 100 million degrees centigrade for brief periods of time.
Dooma on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 5:40 pm
It is of no surprise that the makers of this “deadly doughnut” want to place it as far away from themselves as possible.
claes on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 6:28 pm
Dooma, its only deadly in the meaning that it gives humanity unlimited energy. Other wise it is as green as any thing can be.
Make up your mind if you want mankind to have unlimited energy or not.
Unlimited, non-polluting energy would give humanity the moral excuse to make the planet their own garden, and all other lifeforms on this planet will have to beg for their lifes to be here.
OK they will not have to beg for their life because they will be exterminated any way.
FIGHT FOR OUR BIOSPHERE, NOT JUST FOR OUR OWN SPECIES.
makati1 on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 7:30 pm
Do you ever get the feeling that humanity is committing suicide? I do. The world is going insane with the US leading the pack. I’m glad I only have a decade or so to go, but it is interesting to watch the destruction of everything I knew as I grew up in the mid 20th century.
There were still wild, un-mapped parts of the world like central Africa and the Amazon. You could see bees by the hundreds on the clover blossoms in your lawn. When you turned a spade of earth it was full of little worms and bugs that made it fertile. Birds were everywhere and all kinds of wild critters in the fields and woods to watch. Americans didn’t even have to lock their doors when they went away for a day or at night. That is the world I grew up in. The real American Dream. So different now. So sad.
Amazing on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 7:49 pm
Lol, I thought this was an Onion article..
diemos on Wed, 21st Nov 2018 8:26 pm
Gods above and below.
It’s like the story about china launching a reflector into orbit mated with the story about their tokamak and produced a mutant offspring. “Journalism” at its finest.
Dredd on Thu, 22nd Nov 2018 4:43 am
Happy Thanksgiving !
Dooma on Thu, 22nd Nov 2018 4:50 am
claes, it was cheap energy that caused us this much trouble so far. Not forgetting, of course, unchecked greed and a general attitude that humans are ‘more advanced’ than anything else in nature.
Not that I would hold my breath for it but unlimited energy would finish us off much more quickly.
Cloggie on Thu, 22nd Nov 2018 5:08 am
From its plans to harness and enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its vision of a solar highway planned into the not-too-distant future, China is strongly demonstrating its position as a technology trendsetter of the 21st century.
Plans and reality, two very different things.
Remember this tidbit from 1985?
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intelligence-Challenge/dp/0201115190/ref=sr_1_1
Let’s have a proper Chinese car first, shall we? Than a plane.
Nevertheless, never say never. Unlimited energy means unlimited expansion and unlimited mobility.
I hope it fails, but wouldn’t bet the farm on it.
Antius on Thu, 22nd Nov 2018 6:48 am
Building a fusion reactor in space eliminates the burden of maintaining a vacuum. Without gravity, the structural loads on the reactor are much smaller. So these are advantages, albeit relatively small ones.
The critical problems of plasma stability, low power density, neutron fatigue and energy conversion from hard neutron radiation into electricity; remain as difficult as ever. And launching the reactor into space places mass restraints on the whole system that will not exist on Earth.
Antius on Thu, 22nd Nov 2018 7:49 am
An ultimately more promising approach to controlled fusion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-pinch
Pinches develop pressures of millions of atmospheres, rather than the few atmospheres of pressure possible within a Tokamak. The reaction rate within a fusion plasma is proportional to the square of pressure, so it is easy to see why systems that develop very high plasma pressure are much more desirable.
Nostradamus on Fri, 23rd Nov 2018 5:53 pm
More heat than the Sun. ROTFLMAO.
B.Narayanaswamy on Mon, 2nd Dec 2019 2:34 am
If 2-sun in the atmosphere means can we tollerate the heat in the earth ?????