General / Off-Topic China Sustains 101 Second Fusion Reaction

[shadragon]

Next they are aiming for a 1,000 second burn before full scale production of a commercial fusion reactor.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/06/chinas_fusion_factory_record/

 

[shreddog]

Next they are aiming for a 1,000 second burn before full scale production of a commercial fusion reactor.

Whoa, that's a HUGE step. Where does the article say that? A commercial(profitable) reactor is many years away (AFAIK).

 

[shadragon]

Whoa, that's a HUGE step. Where does the article say that? A commercial(profitable) reactor is many years away (AFAIK).

"The eventual goal is to get a 1,000-second plasma reaction, after which the team will switch to new hardware with the intent of moving to a full working fusion reactor."

Pretty straight forward. They're hardly going to get it working then shelve the project after only making one unit. I suspect ten to twenty years to roll out production models assuming all technical issues are solved.

 

[metatheurgist]

Wow. This and serious advances in quantum computing. Someone's making their country great.

 

[starman]

Building robots to replace their human work force..

Robots don't buy cars or pay taxes..

So the UK cant do that? Come on http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/CCFE.aspx I will as they say leave it there..