If they want us to stop throwing carbon around willy-nilly, wouldn't this be a good place to start? Yeah, sure - we all want to rely on nuclear fusion to power the world's homes, don't we? So the first step is making reactors that can run as hot and as long as possible.
Now, an experimental reactor called KSTAR in Daejeon, Korea, has set a new world record. The massive doughnut-shaped device, which has been dubbed 'Korea's artificial sun' ran at 100 million°C (180 million°F) for 48 seconds. To put that into perspective, that's seven times hotter than the sun's core! The record-breaking test takes us one step closer to the ultimate goal of limitless clean energy.
However - I kinda think if something goes wonkie on this fucker it might just burn a hole through to the core of our own planet, and then the shit'd really hit the metaphorical fan, wouldn't it?
And why aren't we working on shit like this instead of wasting outr time om carbon-capture bullshit technology?
Juss' sayin'...
...
Someone you know has a birthday
or anniversary coming up.
She'd probably love to have these...
Click on the picture for more information on these earrings.
They're only $ 18.00 and that includes free shipping!
...
1 - Who made the thermometer that measures temperatures up to 100 million degrees?
ReplyDelete2 - Everything on earth burns up or melts at temperatures of 4,000 degrees or less, so who made the container that can hold something that is 100 million degrees?
You can't really be this stupid? Or maybe you're just trolling?
Delete1 - Explain how you would create a device that can measure temps up to 100 million degrees.
Delete2 - Nothing could ever go wrong with the complex technology creating the magnetic cage that keeps the 100 million degree plasma suspended - Right?
How can the Koreans do this and not us. They don't have the EPA, OSHA, or a lot of tree hugging lawyers to interfere with the research.
ReplyDeleteWe are doing this, we have several experimental fusion reactors across the country.
DeleteFollow the money...
ReplyDeleteIf it benefits US, it won't be allowed.
ReplyDeleteJust about every advance country is working on fusion power experiments.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fusion_experiments
"Korea's artificial sun' ran at 100 million°C (180 million°F) for 48 seconds. " I hope they built it real close to the DMZ just in case something goes wrong.... I mean it's an ill nuclear explosion that blows no one any good....
ReplyDeleteStill no mention of how much energy it took to generate the plasma (aka how many MW the thing will have to generate before it is a net producer of power).
ReplyDeleteIf this is D-T fusion, where are you going to get kilogram-lots of tritium each day without breeder reactors?
A wonderful engineering achievement, but we are still (and likely always will be) at least 20 years away from commercial uses of fusion.