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China to Build World's First "Artificial Sun"

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the tanning-industry-already-lining-up dept.

cletuii writes to tell us the People's Daily Online is reporting that China is planning on building the world's first "artificial sun" device. From the article: "The project, dubbed EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak), is being undertaken by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan (37 million U.S. dollars), only one fifteenth to one twentieth the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world."

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  1. They don't work by zymano · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Break even will never occur with a Tokamak.

    Need to use pressure,radiation and heat.

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. Re: WHY THE GODDAMN HELL DOES EVERYBODY... by Zantetsuken · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    blame America's financial problems on "The war on terror", what the hell about the expensive food, cloths, cars, houses, and other crap your favorite liberal democrat enjoys paid for by his government check coming from tax dollars??? you cant blame everything on Bush and conservative republicans...

    In the end, it will be one country less that we GIVE insane amounts of money to... which in the end, the totalitarian government or the "revolutionaries" go and take anyway, and then our retarded charities go and send more money. Have you ever heard the saying "Give me a fish and I'll have ONE meal, but TEACH me to fish, and I'll have a meal every day of my life"... this is what America and other Coalition participants are working for - to take the totalitarian government out of power and industrialize these nations - making them self sufficient in the long run.

    So next time, I ask you to please think in the long run before you blurt your mouth, if it's even possible for you to do that.