Date: 7/02/2016 13:02:22
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 843090
Subject: Fusion Reactor Spits Out First Hydrogen Plasma

Fusion Reactor Spits Out First Hydrogen Plasma

Is it hot in here, or is it just Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X stellar fusion device?

Yeah, it’s the Wendelstein. Scientists at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) this week fired up the experimental nuclear fusion reactor to a temperature of 80 million degrees Celsius. That’s correct: 80 million degrees. As a result, the facility generated its first batch of hydrogen plasma.

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Date: 7/02/2016 19:23:50
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 843220
Subject: re: Fusion Reactor Spits Out First Hydrogen Plasma

CrazyNeutrino said:


Fusion Reactor Spits Out First Hydrogen Plasma

Is it hot in here, or is it just Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X stellar fusion device?

Yeah, it’s the Wendelstein. Scientists at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) this week fired up the experimental nuclear fusion reactor to a temperature of 80 million degrees Celsius. That’s correct: 80 million degrees. As a result, the facility generated its first batch of hydrogen plasma.

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>The Wendelstein reactor, in Greifswald, Germany, has been online since October of last year, performing trial runs with helium plasma at a mere 6 million degrees Celsius. Breezy!

Smiles.

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Date: 8/02/2016 14:47:52
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 843726
Subject: re: Fusion Reactor Spits Out First Hydrogen Plasma

CrazyNeutrino said:


Fusion Reactor Spits Out First Hydrogen Plasma

Is it hot in here, or is it just Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X stellar fusion device?

Yeah, it’s the Wendelstein. Scientists at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) this week fired up the experimental nuclear fusion reactor to a temperature of 80 million degrees Celsius. That’s correct: 80 million degrees. As a result, the facility generated its first batch of hydrogen plasma.

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I have a saying, which I’m going to change slightly here to read.

“What you can do with a proton, you can’t do with a cow”

Both a proton and a cow are “matter” and so in theory everything you can do with one you can do with the other.

This Wendelstein experiment in which protons are heated to 80 million degrees is an example. So is the LHC where protons are accelerated to 0.999999991 c. When scientists talk about the possibility of matter passing through wormholes or travelling backwards in time they are talking about protons (or electrons) not cows.

You can’t accelerate a cow to 0.999999991 c, or heat it to 80 million degrees, or pass it through a wormhole or send it back through time, or get a diffraction pattern of a cow by passing it simultaneously through two slits, or use spooky action at a distance to transport a cow through space.

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Date: 8/02/2016 14:49:16
From: dv
ID: 843732
Subject: re: Fusion Reactor Spits Out First Hydrogen Plasma

mollwollfumble said:

“What you can do with a proton, you can’t do with a cow”

well not with that attitude

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Date: 10/02/2016 17:36:26
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 844825
Subject: re: Fusion Reactor Spits Out First Hydrogen Plasma

China’s experimental fusion reactor maintains superheated hydrogen plasma for 102 seconds

A bit of friendly competition never hurt anyone. China’s EAST tokamak and Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X aren’t exactly fusion energy’s answer to Messi and Ronaldo, but through their own flashes of individual brilliance the reactors might one day command the world’s attention in a much more important way. Wendelstein 7-X made headlines last week after generating a quarter-of-a-second pulse of hydrogen plasma, and now scientists at China’s Institute of Physical Science have flexed their fusion muscle to sustain the gas for an impressive 102 seconds.

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