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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. Until it's perfected by Belseth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It'll be a wonderful thing if it's ever made practical. In the meantime there's a nice big one that comes up once a day and there are practical ways to get energy from it.