Rippleman Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 A ground-breaking fusion reactor built by Chinese scientists is underscoring Beijing's determination to be at the core of clean energy technology, as it eyes a fully-functioning plant by 2050. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-china-quest-limitless-energy.html?fbclid=IwAR2Ea2quQ72OMTebGAmilOGHHXHWlIePNrgk_fhh0jXyLFV-zk-FVNXYOB0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatingFatMan Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Knowing how well the Chinese build stuff, I expect this to explode sometime in the next 6-12 months. +Matthew S. 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveL Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Why every news about fusion reactors, year after year, talks about product availability in 30 years from now? I will start to look at these news when these two temporal lines will start to converge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatingFatMan Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 58 minutes ago, slear said: Why every news about fusion reactors, year after year, talks about product availability in 30 years from now? I will start to look at these news when these two temporal lines will start to converge. They have to put it far ahead because they desperately need a fundamental breakthrough in physics to make the damned things work properly, and it's impossible to predict when or if that will happen. Until then, we're stuck with the things using more power than they generate. SteveL 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveL Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 @FloatingFatManCorrect, a fundamental breakthrough in physics is required to overcome the containement problem. Like understanding and taming the gravity force. We need an Einstein that doesn't forget about this little piece of the puzzle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted April 30, 2019 Subscriber² Share Posted April 30, 2019 3 hours ago, FloatingFatMan said: They have to put it far ahead because they desperately need a fundamental breakthrough in physics to make the damned things work properly, and it's impossible to predict when or if that will happen. Until then, we're stuck with the things using more power than they generate. Wait, you mean we don't have transparent Aluminum?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Matthew S. said: Wait, you mean we don't have transparent Aluminum?! We actually do; ALON = aluminum oxynitride, a metal ceramic. Clear as glass 1.6 inch can stop a .50 armor piercing round fired point-blank. Already tested by NASA for spacecraft windows. Edited May 1, 2019 by DocM dead.cell and +Matthew S. 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted May 1, 2019 Subscriber² Share Posted May 1, 2019 @DocMI was being sarcastic, and at that was also referencing the super duper strong one from Star Trek 😛 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zagadka Subscriber² Posted May 1, 2019 Subscriber² Share Posted May 1, 2019 Doesn't count until Elon Musk tweets it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Matthew S. said: @DocMI was being sarcastic, and at that was also referencing the super duper strong one from Star Trek 😛 So was I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatingFatMan Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 That's Transparent AluminIum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted May 2, 2019 Subscriber² Share Posted May 2, 2019 On 5/1/2019 at 12:50 AM, FloatingFatMan said: That's Transparent AluminIum! Sorry Canada has a hybrid dictionary and I used the American version 😛 (it's actually acceptable in Canada to use either variant. Had to prove someone wrong a few years ago at work for using the US spelling vs English spelling of Jewellery ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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