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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. Gasp by Beren87 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But Japan is land of the rising sun!

  2. In Other News.... by carterhawk001 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dr. Otto Octavius recently filed suit against the government of China, damn USPTO lets you patent anything these days....

  3. KaBOOM ! by Redshift · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article says that the reactor "aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy".

    Infinite energy?

    Uh .. anyone else a tinsy little bit worried about that word "infinite"?!

    1. Re:KaBOOM ! by CDMA_Demo · · Score: 5, Funny



      The article says that the reactor "aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy". Infinite energy?

      Anything that outlives you can be considered infinite. For example, my honda CRX is infinite.

  4. Good thing too by MutantHamster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know how much longer the real sun's going to last. I mean these days it seems like half the time it's not even up there.

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    My Greatest Heist - Muisc partly inspired by the unbeatable Qwantz
  5. uh by lamp540 · · Score: 5, Funny

    we have these already, they're called LIGHTBULBS.

  6. Re:How far off is fusion power? by Guppy06 · · Score: 5, Funny

    When your dad was a kid the Soviets were still offering free delivery of their fusion devices to US cities. Nowadays fusion isn't as big a deal at the DoD, which means fewer resources and slipping goals.

  7. Re:Sun Tzu by dotslashdot · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can finally outsource global warming!

  8. Re:*sigh* by dfenstrate · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're the asshole who starts talking politics in the middle of every discussion, aren't you?

    Example from your life:
    Coworker: So I started talking to this hot babe at the bar yesterday, and we were really hitting it off...

    You, interupting: Bush wants to take away her voting rights and chain her to the stove!

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    Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.