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
China: Trying to make the world a better place.
America: Trying to monetize the rot.
This reminds me, the Korean version of this song goes so hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5pAHYEC6Q
headlines that could be very different with a single letter change
Fuck yeah
Do we have to call it an "artificial sun"? Because that's... weirdly sinister. And "tokamak" or "plasma reactor" sound badass already.
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!!
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.
MIT is working on a similar reactor design with some private firm, not as far progressed
Detailed study of magnets built by MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems confirms they meet requirements for an economic, compact fusion power plant.
https://news.mit.edu/2024/tests-show-high-temperature-superconducting-magnets-fusion-ready-0304
Yes but it should be renamed BMIT.
The Bitch Made Institute of Technology
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"
The article doesn't say what the Q value is. I'm assuming it's below 1.
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.
Yes, and cold fusion is 10 years away. They are not going to manage that in 5 years.
Why do you think that? The use of higher temperature superconductors is stated to significantly reduce size and construction time so you don't have to wait 30 years for ITER.
Q>10 is one thing, being able to sustain that for useful periods, cheap fuel, accessible tritium) radioactive waste and not having to rebuild the reactor every few years are far more difficult problems.
If estimates on fusion were reliable we would have had cold fusion in 1970. They can move faster but there are so many unknown unknowns.
Right, but they weren't building these sort of functioning scaled down demonstrators in the 70s
Is there even a theoretical model that suggests cold fusion could occur?
I hope they can do it, but I will eat a shoe and post it to this website if they hit Q>10 by 2027
