Unlimited Power - Breakthrough

[Alan de Enfield]

China makes artificial sun BREAKTHROUGH in step towards limitless energy

CHINA’S ‘artificial sun’ has broken yet another record after it exceeded temperatures of 100 MILLION degrees celsius, bringing in a new dawn of energy.

The Asian country’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor in Hefei broke a new record in fusion technology as it reached temperatures six times higher than the sun. Nuclear fusion is a staggering technical innovation in which hydrogen from sea water and readily available lithium is heated to more than 150 million°C. Atomic nuclei begin to fuse together releasing huge amounts of energy but without the massive amount of deadly radiation which our existing nuclear fission reactors create.

Nuclear fusion is the process which powers the sun.

However, for a sustainable nuclear fusion energy source, temperatures will need to reach seven times as hot as the sun (15 million degrees Celsius) in the reactors on Earth.

Associate professor Matthew Hole from the Australian National University told ABC: "It's certainly a significant step for China's nuclear fusion program and an important development for the whole world.

"The benefit is simple in that it is very large-scale base load [continuous] energy production, with zero greenhouse gas emissions and no long-life radioactive waste.

 

[cuthound]

So how long before a drop in replacement for a diesel engine is available? ?

[RLWP]

Promising, does it produce more power than it consumes yet?

 

Or run for longer than 101.2 seconds?

 

Richard

 

 

[Alan de Enfield]

1 minute ago, cuthound said:

So how long before a drop in replacement for a diesel engine is available? ?

Probably before we have the infrastructure in place to support 13 million electric vehicles

[RLWP]

1 minute ago, cuthound said:

So how long before a drop in replacement for a diesel engine is available? ?

Can't be long, surely:

 

[Alan de Enfield]

Just now, RLWP said:

Can't be long, surely:

 

 

Now that's what I call an engine room !!

[cuthound]

2 minutes ago, RLWP said:

Can't be long, surely:

 

 

Perhaps I'll put one on my Christmas list ?

[RLWP]

Just now, cuthound said:

 

Perhaps I'll put one on my Christmas list ?

Have you been good?

[cuthound]

Just now, RLWP said:

Have you been good?

 

Probably not good enough ?

[system 4-50]

Damn. I knew I should've bought a fatty widebeam boat.

[cereal tiller]

8 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:

Damn. I knew I should've bought a fatty widebeam boat.

Ridiculous waste of Resources! just link 5 Thousand Eco Fans together start the Reaction with one of those Gel Hand Warmers.........

[Jen-in-Wellies]

Just think of the size of the starter battery needed to get the fusion reaction going. And the size of skin tank to dump the excess heat.

[Chewbacka]

And all to heat maybe two grams of hydrogen.

Though at a temperature of 100 million C will have expanded into quite a large volume, so maybe less than 2g.

Edited November 17, 2018 by Chewbacka

[Detling]

4 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Probably before we have the infrastructure in place to support 13 million electric vehicles

only 13 million we have over 30 million cars now + vans buses and lorries and I can't see the number going down.

[Alan de Enfield]

1 minute ago, Detling said:

only 13 million we have over 30 million cars now + vans buses and lorries and I can't see the number going down.

"The longest journey starts with the smallest step"

[peterboat]

31 minutes ago, Detling said:

only 13 million we have over 30 million cars now + vans buses and lorries and I can't see the number going down.

In certain countries electric vehicles are outselling ICEs they have faith and the certain knowledge that they are the future, because they know without them the future will be very short!

[matty40s]

5 hours ago, RLWP said:

Can't be long, surely:

 

Its a single pot, but bet it doesnt sound as good as a Bolinder...

[MtB]

7 minutes ago, peterboat said:

In certain countries electric vehicles are outselling ICEs they have faith and the certain knowledge that they are the future, because they know without them the future will be very short!

 

Which countries Peter? 

 

If I bought a car I'd be buying it to use here and now, in a country with bugger all charging points and little prospect of getting enough.

 

 

 

ICE is the only sensible option, here and now, unless you hardly drive anywhere.

[Tumshie]

36 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

Which countries Peter? 

obviously I'm not Peter and the question is prolly rhetorical any way but for the sake of answering it - the answer is Norway.

 

And it's prolly also the only one.

[cuthound]

53 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Its a single pot, but bet it doesnt sound as good as a Bolinder...

 

But the smoke rings will be more impressive ?

[peterboat]

51 minutes ago, Tumshie said:

obviously I'm not Peter and the question is prolly rhetorical any way but for the sake of answering it - the answer is Norway.

 

And it's prolly also the only one.

China as well

[Tumshie]

1 minute ago, peterboat said:

China as well

really - that I didn't realise but it makes sense. 

[MtB]

2 minutes ago, Tumshie said:

really - that I didn't realise but it makes sense. 

 

Indeed it does, given they are reputed to be building a new coal-fired power station every two weeks.

 

 

[Tumshie]

1 minute ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Indeed it does, given they are reputed to be building a new coal-fired power station every two weeks.

 

 

China are working very hard to give the impression that they are very environmentally friendly ?

[peterboat]

Really read this and then realise that the EU is light years behind them! Its only because of the UKs love affair with wind turbines that put us in the running https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrEeGGVePBbwGoAKDonnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByOHZyb21tBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1542514966/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.e3g.org%2flibrary%2fchina-accelerates-while-europe-deliberates-on-the-clean-energy-transition/RK=2/RS=oaPlihHc1U.7IGtHWB61fVvHWyA-