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China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible
(www.the-independent.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Meanwhile USA is stealing Venezuelan oil. Good job everbody. 👍
Well. At least it will guarantee the USA's eventual fall from power.
Can you imagine the tech bros and anti-intectuals groveling to rejoin the scientific community?
Unfortunately science is not a morality structure.
Just a few years ago US labs were the first to generate more power than they put into a fusion reactor, it was one of the most important breakthroughs to date in fusion.
Even under the shitheap Trump, the US is continuing to research into fusion and building stellarators such as Infinity 1 in Tennessee.
Europe likewise is leading breakthroughs such as with Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany lasting for 43 seconds. This is being improved with the new Proxima Alpha stellarator being built.
China’s EAST reactor had a breakthrough when they achieved 1,000 seconds last year. While Europes recent ITER tokamak should be achieving its first plasma in the coming years.
Fusion is a global effort, and scientists are benefiting from the works being put in elsewhere. Stellarators and Tokamak are both breaking new grounds each year, and each has their own pros and cons.
Don’t fall for any propaganda trying to claim anyone is “winning”.
While we maybe researching and contributing into Fusion we are not at all looking into making use for the energy grid. At most just if it can be used for the Data Centers
(Which is yes we could but I think providing free energy for homes is a better use you ask me.)
These comment sections can be a place of puerility and defeatism. Thanks for being the difference.
What ? It was not really. Here's a physicist discussing why.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/08/fusion-foolery/
To be fair the hype machine was from the press not the scientists
Stunts also draw attention to stuff. Its yet to be seen if its a net positive but it did help me get up to speed on the current state of fusion technology.
Thanks for your positive and refreshing comment ❤️
I'm assuming the sole reason the Orange cunt hasn't destroyed the US's fusion research is because he wants to give exclusive rights to build and use it to ~~Vault-Tech~~ the tech broligarchs who bribe him.
It's still decades to never from being practical.
It always will be until the day it isn't. Breakthrough's cannot be timelined or predicted.
Stay positive buddy.stay positive buddy, if oil become obsolete the struggle of the us will end. Their trouble is price of oil. They need to inject oil in the system to reduce price and stay competitive with solar, etc. And they have to attack other country to maintain the system. It stay viable for long they will have to go renewables.
Tanks, jets and rockets don't run on electric. Can't do a big war without some good old crude oil.
But drones can. Little propeller drones are killing Russian invaders by the thousands
Trump and other dictators are vain (uh, reviving an outdated class of naval ship and naming it after yourself sound familiar?) so they'll prefer bombers, tanks, and rockets over some little robots with little propellers. They disdain things that look weak regardless of their usefulness.
Pitch that to Trump and his team and see if they will run their next kidnapping op by propeller drone only.
Well, current electric helicopters don't have a long range. But that's a 2026 problem, when battery tech improves they can be made just as good. Actually, better, since electric helicopters are quieter