Germany's Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor produces its first flash of hydrogen plasma (nuclear fusion)

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Last Edited by Face Palmer on 02/04/2016 02:59 AM

Clean, possibly reliable, but not cheap, not possible for the public to build and probably not the simplest machine to repair(sarcasm).

it's getting warmer

We've got to start somewhere. The first cars had the same issues.

I think humanity needs some kind of breakthrough.

Morning. Yep I hope this works out - and the rate at which technology's advanced in the last century it shouldn't be long. Unless we manage to bomb ourselves back into the Stone Age before then!

Actually in the last 50 Years we had done sooooooo muchas Research
that we need at least 100 Years to do the Studies!

We can be sure that "the Solution" is already there but we do not know where!

Wendelstein is a great Step forward, maybe only in Theory but we need to see it in Reality!

Awesome!

The ultimate...

Found a geek free article on it:

German scientists today will set about the first steps towards what has become the Holy Grail of energy—nuclear fusion, which has the potential for unlimited amounts of clean power. There are a number of challenges to harnessing this power—researchers need to build a device that can heat atoms to temperatures of more than 100 million °C (180 million °F).

After almost nine years of construction work and more than a million assembly hours, researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald are set to do just that by heating a tiny amount of hydrogen until it becomes as hot, hopefully, as the center of the Sun.

The Wendelstein 7-x is the largest stellarator fusion device in the world—dubbed the “dark horse in fusion energy research” and costing €370 million ($404 million) to build—rivalling the standard tokamak fusion reactor that was developed by Soviet researchers. Researchers were able to carry out the first successful experiment last year, producing helium plasma. Satisfied with the initial results, researchers are setting out to work to produce the first plasma from hydrogen.

The international coalition behind a rival, multibillion-dollar ITER fusion project, which aims to show that nuclear fusion is technically feasible, recently announced it would take six years longer than planned to build their device—and require a lot more funding.

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This is pretty exciting and can change the world in a couple of years.

For a better understanding of what the Teutons are doing:


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Thanks Japan!

Woo hoo. The day is almost here.

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Shouldn't this get pinned eh?

LOL. Good one!

LOL

Face Palmer threads = Shill BS

And the last cars are total garbage. After 100 years, people still die in car crashes.

THIS IN BOLD!!!

"I've" shown them where they already have the answers they need in their research. The problem is the way they are observing and WHO is doing the observing!!!

But "I" digress, I have bigger fish to handle at the moment...if these guys and gals won't listen up we'll all have mutated zombies to deal with!

Nah. Fusion is ALWAYS ten years from now. It's been like that since 60s. Fusion is not clean either. Fusion releases lethal neutrons and even if they are contained, the wall materials become neutron activated (i.e. radioactive). We end up with the same radiological waste as we do with fission. Not worth it. Get rid of coal and oil and build a closed fission cycle (uranium and plutonium reactors) and we'll never run out of fission fuel.

Tends to happen when you build something in socialist France.

Hide it from the Muslim invaders before they destroy it!