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Towards "An artificial sun"

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By scooby

 https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/towards-artificial-sun-will-china-win-nuclear-fusion-race


Beijing has a lot of irons in the global energy market fire, facing off against Russia for nuclear energy dominance in Africa, ramping up coal-fired capacity abroad while simultaneously touting its lofty decarbonization plans back at home, and now, powering up a brand new, cutting-edge “artificial sun.”

The so-called sun is a nuclear fusion reactor which came online for the first time last week, “marking a great advance in the country's nuclear power research capabilities,” according to a report by Science X Network’s Phys.org.

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Anonymous said…


NIF is way ahead of this. Besides China is our friend Russia is the enemy.
12/13/2020 10:00 PM
Anonymous said…
An unsupported scientific statement followed by an unsupported political statement. Sorta typical here.
12/14/2020 5:58 PM
Anonymous said…
12/14/2020 5:58 PM

Care to add something better?
12/14/2020 8:28 PM
Anonymous said…
"only 50 years away"
12/14/2020 9:11 PM
Anonymous said…
9:11 50 years ago, they said fusion was 20 years away. Now they say it is 50 years away. Given Livermore’s trajectory, I’d bet it’ll never happen. Unfortunately, I cannot collect on that bet.
12/17/2020 9:51 AM
Anonymous said…
Fusion works. Look up at noon. Unfortunately, humankind is not smart enough to scale it down.
12/19/2020 6:59 PM
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