China's commercial 'artificial sun' achieves first discharge
China's commercial 'artificial sun' achieves first discharge
China is the dream; they're like one of the few countries and only super power that's actually working towards the betterment of humanity
没有共产党，就没有新中国
This reminds me, the Korean version of this song goes so hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5pAHYEC6Q
hey i actually read this!
Fuck yeah
Do we have to call it an "artificial sun"? Because that's... weirdly sinister. And "tokamak" or "plasma reactor" sound badass already.
tokamak = hotboxing your car in the McDonald's drive thru line
Tokamak is a Soviet word
Do we have to call it an "artificial sun"? Because that's... weirdly sinister.
nah that sounds cool too
Wow we need to nuke china RIGHT NOW and destroy this.
The sinister chinese are causing global warming by creating a second sun, don't they know it's dang hot enough!!
Technically they're already nuking themselves by building this.
Artificial sin
I achieved a discharge this morning to zero fan-fare
Looking at the stark difference between contemporary Chinese and American science, it’s basically insane to think America not even that long ago was the scientific center of the world.
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Yes but it should be renamed BMIT.
The Bitch Made Institute of Technology
Meanwhile in American science news
Highest amount of bullshit I've ever read, American scientists can be such jokes sometimes.
It all went downhill when we started accepting "celebrity scientists"
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I'd imagine, but I found this interesting:
Currently the maximum Q value achieved by humans is 1.53.
Had no idea someone had managed to get more energy out of a fusion device than they put in. Must have been unable to sustain it for any significant length of time, but still seems important.
The Q=1.53 was done at the National Ignition Facility using inertial confinement fusion, which is significant for plasma research (and probably bombs), but can't be used to generate power.
It was big news I want to say about a year ago when a team first published that they had done it
Also this is just plasma gain, not whole system gain. To have a commercially viable reactor your probably need Q total > 10 at least. No system build so far even has a Q total of 1
It was the NIF two years ago but it's also not going to be generating power ever, it was just a demonstration/proof of concept.
