Re: OT: Chinese tokamak

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:03:45 -0400, legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:41:35 -0700, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:49:30 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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The US led on nuclear fusion for decades.
Now China is in position to win the race:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/climate/nuclear-fusion-clean-energy-china-us/index.html
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China's EAST tokamak in Hefei held plasma stable at 70 million degrees Celsius
- five times hotter than the core of the sun - for more than 17 minutes,
a world record and an objectively astonishing breakthrough.

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Sounds expensive and useless, like the Chinese moon landings.
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Feed the kids first.

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Pot and kettle.
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RL

Yes, they need pots and kettles and stuff to cook in them.

I was just reading about lots of people in Cuba scrounging through
garbage dumps looking for something to eat. Cuba used to be the
richest place in the carribean, before Castro liberated it.