Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds

Is… is that good?

Edit: it is!

Hotter than the surface of the sun by a factor of ~18000.

Hotter than the suns core by a factor of ~7.

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/temperatures-across-our-solar-system/#hds-sidebar-nav-1

People talk about Icarus flying too close to the sun. Motherfuckers are recreating it in labs 😂

I'd love to see an operating fusion reactor in my lifetime. Real sci-fi technology

48 seconds at those temperatures is no joke, that is pretty amazing. I didn’t see the article elaborate on what the current limiting factors are for pushing beyond 48 seconds. Like I wonder if it’s a hard wall, a new engineering challenge, a tweak needed, etc. this is the reactor that set the last record so they are doing something really right.

Hot damn! Limitless fusion power is only thirty years away!

Unfortunately the amount of helium made in fusion is so small as to be useless for anything humans need. Fusion is just that efficient.

Almost as hot as the temperature my wife leaves the shower at.

I can't wait for the billionaires to increase our power bills for this.

Yes yes I know it would be cheaper, but billionaires are going to charge more money even though it's costing them less.

100 million degrees C

Sounds hot.

One day we will break that record and nobody will ever know again.

Can't wait for fusion reactors to not be thing for another 50 years at the very least.

I'd like to know more. How do you actually harness the energy produced by temperatures that high? Is the end goal to figure out how to sustain the reaction at lower temperatures or do we actually have ways to generate electricity from those temperatures without losing most of it to waste?

Fusion triple product: the duration the thing works x inverse of how close you are to melting the reactor vessel x how large is the reactor vessel

One step closer to getting the T-51s working.

Can’t be good for our global warming problem, amirite?

Soooo, we will all start sounding like Alvin and the Chipmunks soon?

Think of all the houses they could heat with that!

I'll be excited if/when they can harness the power. PS the world is running out of liquid helium that is used to cool the magnets

The faster I get my steak the better

sick. cool. So uh. How long until power generation happens now?

Ah who am i kidding, it'll be at least a decade, probably more like two. Three including manufacturing and building all the plants.

Stage three: make everyone on earth sound like a freaked out anime character.

Success.

We have a fusion reactor in the middle of our solar system solving the spicy half of the problem already. If we are having a solar heat capture problem, how is a new source of virtually unlimited power (and heat) here going to work? How is superconductivity coming along to help mitigate this?

That doesn't sound like cold fusion.

You do realize that the creation of infinite free fusion power will not reduce your powerbill one penny, right?