China's 'Artificial Sun' Breaks Nuclear Fusion Limit Thought to Be Impossible (the-independent.com) 32
"Scientists in China have made a breakthrough with fusion energy that could finally overcome one of the most stubborn barriers to realising the next-generation energy source," reports the Independent:
A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said its experimental nuclear reactor, dubbed the 'artificial Sun', achieved a plasma density that was previously thought impossible... Through a new process called plasma-wall self organisation, the CAS researchers were able to keep the plasma stable at unprecedented density levels. By pushing plasma density well past long-standing empirical limits, the researchers said fusion ignition can be achieved with far higher energy outputs. "The findings suggest a practical and scalable pathway for extending density limits in tokamaks and next-generation burning plasma fusion devices," said Professor Ping Zhu from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, who so-led the research.
Professor Zhu's team now plan to apply this new method on the EAST reactor to confirm that it will work under high-performance plasma conditions. The latest breakthrough was detailed in the journal Science Advances in a study titled 'Accessing the density-free regime with ECRH-assisted ohmic start-up on EAST'.
Professor Zhu's team now plan to apply this new method on the EAST reactor to confirm that it will work under high-performance plasma conditions. The latest breakthrough was detailed in the journal Science Advances in a study titled 'Accessing the density-free regime with ECRH-assisted ohmic start-up on EAST'.
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I believe what the OP is saying is that this /. article duplicates what was published the day before in /., namely https://science.slashdot.org/s... [slashdot.org]. And in that he's exactly right, and I'm hoping some MOD will give him back his score.
DeepSeek (Score:1)
What was the prompt for that? Formulate, elaborate, quantify and implement one of the reasons why we don't have the orange person as head of our country?
Re:DeepSeek (Score:4, Insightful)
What was the prompt for that? Formulate, elaborate, quantify and implement one of the reasons why we don't have the orange person as head of our country?
Hey. That guy is going to run Venezuela, okay. And he's super busy frog-walking its former dictator and doing armed pursuit of heavy crude oil -- that no one really wants because (a) oil is $60/barrel, (b) it's too heavy to easily refine and (c) the country he's extorting is too politically unstable and lacks sufficient infrastructure for more investment and production. Sure he says Venezuela will "turn over" 50 million barrels (which is only two months of U.S. production), but that will be sold and the proceeds put into commercial banks (no, not the Treasury) for this guy to personally control. Also he got to finish building a ballroom and put his name on a few more buildings... You know, what his people voted for. So he's way too busy grifting, grafting, raping (*cough*) and pillaging to also run China. Geesh. /s
Was this nit reported twice before? (Score:5, Informative)
My memory may deceive me, but this could be one of the rare tripple-stories on Slashdot!
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Don't know about triple but:
https://science.slashdot.org/s... [slashdot.org]
Someone must really dislike you to mod you troll for noticing.
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There are a couple of idiot assholes that do not like being called out on their crap. They mistakenly think modding me down for whatever makes their non-existent points stronger.
So, let me guess (Score:5, Funny)
Because of this announcement, researchers say that practical fusion energy is - what - only 10 to 15 years away? /s
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I dream of the day when a news story about fusion won't be accompanied by this same old tired attempt at humor. It remains only a dream.
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It's good to hold onto your dreams - no matter how unrealistic!
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I dream of the day when a news story about fusion won't be accompanied by this same old tired attempt at humor. It remains only a dream.
After 50+ years of every breakthrough reported being followed by "unlimited fusion energy is just 15 to 20 years away" it's kinda hard to not make a joke of it. Duke Nukem Forever was delayed by 14 years and was a similar joke. The promise for fusion being 20 years away has gone through 3 generations now.
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The main problem with the "fusion industry" is not the difficulty to have a few reactors doing proper fusion ...
But: there is no industry.
Supposed you wanted to replace all the remaining coal plants with fusion ... you need to build a plant. You need the fuel. You need to transport the fuel ... and so on.
When fusion is ready, the planet will not need it anymore. But we can dream of space ships, right? And bases on outer worlds ...
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"Duke Nukem Forever was delayed by 14 years"
Seems like this is becoming the norm.
Re: So, let me guess (Score:2)
So you are upset that a long-running meme about how vaporware continues to be vaporware, is still a long-running meme on any story related to the quintessential example of vaporware?
Reminder: even with this place being a shadow of former glory, you aren't the only one reading. Its fine to not comment.
Re: So, let me guess (Score:1)
But I would have been disappointed if it had not appearedâ¦.
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It's not a certain number of years away, it's a certain number of dollars away. This is a solvable engineering problem. Fund it, and they can get it done.
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Sadly, I think if anyone is going to do it, it will probably be a Chinese team. They have the funding and seem to be making rapid progress in a number of fields, while we are busy with other stuff.
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Great! (Score:1)
Now lets see these results repeated OUTSIDE of China...
Yep, more proof (Score:5, Insightful)
that this is going to be Chinas' century, as America pulls away from science.
Who knew? (Score:3)
Heh....
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It's not a fusion reactor so let's cut the hype headlines.
People are so desperate for "clicks" nowadays that every science news is a "breakthrough" or "revolution" now, especially in fusion, superconductivity or quantum computers - however reaching this "new density in plasma confinement" is still interesting.