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Hotter than the surface of the sun by a factor of ~18000.
Hotter than the suns core by a factor of ~7.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/temperatures-across-our-solar-system/#hds-sidebar-nav-1
People talk about Icarus flying too close to the sun. Motherfuckers are recreating it in labs π
Hotter than yo mama β¦. Wait a minute
Just barely though...
If Icarus won't come to the sun, the sun will come to Icarus.
Is⦠is that good?
Edit: it is!
From what absolutely little I know, yes. Sustaining the reaction at such high temps for long is, as of now, difficult.
Yeah, I decided to actually bother and read the article. Thatβs why I made my edit. This sounds like a very important technical milestone for the development of fusion reactors. Hooray!
48 seconds at those temperatures is no joke, that is pretty amazing. I didnβt see the article elaborate on what the current limiting factors are for pushing beyond 48 seconds. Like I wonder if itβs a hard wall, a new engineering challenge, a tweak needed, etc. this is the reactor that set the last record so they are doing something really right.
Unfortunately the amount of helium made in fusion is so small as to be useless for anything humans need. Fusion is just that efficient.
So no chipmunk voices? π’
Can't wait for fusion reactors to not be thing for another 50 years at the very least.
100 million degrees C
Sounds hot.
Sounds hot.
You should see it in a bikini.
Almost as hot as the temperature my wife leaves the shower at.
Hot damn! Limitless fusion power is only thirty years away!
Like it has been for the past 30 years (which, I assume, was the joke here.)
If fusion research was funded adequately we'd probably have it by now, but I don't know if it's the energy lobby or what that means that it's chronically underfunded. An actually working fusion reactor design would bring about such an upheaval in the energy markets that I wouldn't be surprised if plutocrats had a hand in making sure the research receives orders of magnitude less money than it should.
Breakthroughs will bring in investment and then things can accelerate if it ends up viable.
Soooo, we will all start sounding like Alvin and the Chipmunks soon?
I'd like to know more. How do you actually harness the energy produced by temperatures that high? Is the end goal to figure out how to sustain the reaction at lower temperatures or do we actually have ways to generate electricity from those temperatures without losing most of it to waste?
I'd love to see an operating fusion reactor in my lifetime. Real sci-fi technology
Currently reading news and communicating with people around the world from the privacy of my toilet using my hand terminal. It can also understand what I am saying and excecute my spoken commands (to some extent at least). That's some Sci fi shit right there. Pun intended
Canβt be good for our global warming problem, amirite?
Lol ironic isn't it, considering easy access to fusion power would basically solve the climate crisis.
If you had a bunch of fusion plants running AC units could you reverse global warming?
Ignoring actual practicality.... I guess you could run a heat exchanger and dump all the energy into a tiny object then shoot it into space
Not the timezones!
One step closer to getting the T-51s working.
Only 2,543,456,495,596 steps to go
This ia a reference to max signed int32 right?
No, the fact the technology has been 5 years away since the 80's
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