China Just LAUNCHED Its Artificial Sun To Show It's TECHNOLOGICAL POWER!

China has created a replica of the sun

using nuclear technology sounds absurd

doesn't it but it's true however this

development raises concerns about

whether China can handle the

consequences of such a feat and if there

is a possibility of things going wrong

the Chinese have always been a

Powerhouse of innovation but they have

dramatically proven their technological

abilities by launching their own

artificial sun into the sky join us as

we delve deeper into the groundbreaking

invention of the Chinese Sun

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at the center of our sun an unending

Atomic Inferno exists wherein its

immense Mass creates unmatched

gravitational force and prodigious

pressure on its core as a result of this

pressure two hydrogen Isotopes are fused

together resulting in an Indescribable

reaction that produces a vast amount of

light and heat two crucial elements for

life on Earth while simultaneously

releasing helium Fusion is considered

the Holy Grail of energy it does not

generate any radioactive waste the

hydrogen Isotopes necessary for Fusion

can be obtained easily from heavy water

and irradiated lithium scientists

globally view fusion as an infinite

eco-friendly energy source for the

future due to its incapability to

produce greenhouse gases the emergence

of fusion technology holds the potential

to transform our current world by

rendering fossil fuels irrelevant and

cutting down energy expenses this could

heavily impact Nations whose primary

source of income is the exportation of

petroleum products or liquid natural gas

as Fusion poses a massive challenge to

their existing systems

there's a race to create an artificial

sun through nuclear fusion which could

provide a limitless source of clean

energy for the future governments and

strategic investors are pouring

resources into fusion and scientists are

working hard to realize an energy output

higher than its input this war for power

is primarily between the United States

China and Russia the fusion process is

highly sought after as a source of

energy it involves combining Atomic

nuclei to generate a gigantic amount of

energy unlike the fission method used in

nuclear power plants and atomic weapons

which involves breaking them apart

however achieving Fusion is a

challenging and costly Endeavor with the

international thermonuclear experimental

reactors total cost estimated at 22.5

billion dollars the process of fusion is

remarkably arduous while it occurs

naturally within the sun achieving

stable Fusion is a tremendous challenge

in theory it may seem simple Collide

some atoms together and harness the

energy but creating an artificial sun is

enormously complex in practice

firstly the sun size is approximately

1.3 million times greater than Earth's

making it impossible to replicate its

gravitational forces on our planet the

fusion process within the sun's core

also occurs in a superheated stellar

oven that burns at a scorching 15

million degrees Celsius scientists face

numerous challenges in their pursuit of

Fusion Energy they not only need to

create the necessary pressure and heat

to fuse hydrogen but also keep it

contained using magnetic fields which is

no easy task researchers must conduct

significant experimentation and

continuous trial and error to achieve

Fusion under high pressure and extreme

heat conditions however containing

turbulent molten plasma is just one part

of the challenge the process requires a

substantial amount of energy input

scientists aim to achieve an energy

output more ample than the input to make

fusion a viable Commercial Energy Source

but since Earth's gravity is much weaker

than the sun's Fusion reactors require

even more heat to compensate for the

lack of pressure resulting in higher

energy consumption

in fact to attain Fusion on Earth

researchers need to raise temperatures

to several hundred million degrees

Celsius which necessitates more robust

magnetic containment and even more

energy input the competition for Fusion

technology is at an all-time high with

the United States China and Russia

leading the pack for Many Nations this

represents a critical matter of National

Security and the development of fusion

technology is highly classified the U.S

team led by Commonwealth Fusion systems

a spin-off of the prestigious

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

aims to achieve a net energy gain by

2025 demonstrating their unwavering

commitment to success China a relative

newcomer to the race is a formidable

rival treating energy development with

the utmost importance and already

competing with Russia in the field of

conventional nuclear energy in fact on

December 4th 2020 China achieved a

momentous Milestone by activating its

artificial sun using a russian-designed

reactor that has been the subject of

constant Improvement the experimental

Advanced superconducting Tokamak East

also known as the artificial sun is

being developed and operated in a

research facility in an huay province's

Jefe city in China the Project's budget

is reported to be 300 million Chinese

yen which is around U.S 37 million

dollars despite what its name May imply

East is not a luminous orb levitating in

the sky nor is it an object seen in

fabricated videos on Twitter instead it

is a donut-shaped confinement chamber

that utilizes a great deal of magnetic

field to contain superheated Plasma in

the early 1990s The Institute of plasma

physics in collaboration with Russia

built China's first superconducting

Tokamak device ht7 it was followed by

the East project which was proposed in

1996 and approved in 1998.

a schedule from 2003 indicated that site

facilities and buildings were to be

constructed by that year with Tokamak

assembly taking place from 2003 to 2005.

construction was finished in March 2006.

the first plasma was achieved on

September 28 2006. with an initial test

lasting almost three seconds and

producing an electric current of 200

kilo amperes by January 2007 the reactor

created a plasma that lasted nearly five

seconds and generated an electric

current of 500 kilo amperes on November

7 2010 East accomplished its first H

mode plasma by lhw alone in May 2011

East became the first Tokamak to

successfully maintain H mode plasma for

more than 30 seconds at a temperature of

approximately 50 million Kelvin during a

ribbon-cutting ceremony the East

auxiliary heating system project entered

phase two on November 29 2011. after a

20-month long upgrade break starting in

September 2012 East was ready for

experiments in May 2014. by May 2015

East reported one Mega ampere current

and H mode for 6.4 seconds in Feb

February 2016 a plasma pulse was

maintained for a record 102 seconds at

around 50 million degrees Celsius with a

plasma current of 400 kilo ampere on

November 2nd 2016 East became the first

Tokamak to successfully sustain H mode

plasma for over a minute at around 50

million degrees Celsius on July 3 2017

for over 100 seconds East reached a

landmark of 100 million degrees Celsius

electron temperature on November 12

2018. on May 2021 it approached another

stepping stone of 120 million degrees

Celsius electron temperature for 101

seconds on December 30 2021 East

achieved a new world record for the

operation of the Tokamak experimental

device with a long pulse High parameter

plasma operation of 10 56 seconds

finally on April 12 2023 East achieved

the world's first steady state H mode

plasma for 403 seconds while China is

working with the international

thermonuclear experimental reactor in

collaboration with 35 other nations the

Quest for a commercially viable Fusion

reactor remains a highly individualized

Endeavor for China with the competition

being more intense than ever China has

already conducted test runs on its

Fusion reactor while the international

thermonuclear experimental reactor plans

to activate its own artificial sun in

2025. the goal is to achieve net Power

by 2035 which is almost a decade later

than the estimated deadline set by MIT

with the successful activation of its

nuclear fusion reactor China has created

a history in nuclear power research to

last an eternity according to people's

daily nuclear fusion energy development

is vital for China's strategic energy

needs and the sustainable development of

its energy and National economy the hl2m

Tokamak reactor China's most advanced

nuclear fusion experimental research

device uses a strong magnetic field to

fuse hot plasma and can potentially

unlock a more potent clean energy source

the reactor can allegedly reach

temperatures of over 150 million degrees

Celsius approximately 10 times hotter

than the sun's core the reactor is

located in southwestern Sichuan Province

and is often called an artificial sun

due to its colossal heat and power since

2006 Chinese scientists have been

developing miniature nuclear fusion

reactors which they intend to utilize in

conjunction with the international

thermonuclear experimental reactor

project this project in France is the

world's largest nuclear fusion research

initiative and is slated for completion

in 2025 the East Tokamak reactor has

broken multiple world records for plasma

duration and temperature before East the

Tor Supra reactor in France held the

record for the most prolonged plasma

duration at 6.5 minutes in 2003 South

Korea's k-star reactor set a record in

26 16 for maintaining 50 million degrees

Celsius for 70 seconds however East

surpassed Stars record in 2021 by

sustaining around 119 million degrees

Celsius for 102 seconds in May 2021 East

also set a record by running for 101

seconds at an unprecedented 120 million

degrees Celsius for comparison the sun's

core is only around 15 million degrees

Celsius Fusion technology can

potentially revolutionize the energy

industry by making fossil fuels obsolete

while reducing energy costs this

Innovation will likely pose a mighty

challenge for countries whose primary

exports are petroleum products or liquid

natural gas nevertheless fossil fuels

will only partially be replaced given

their widespread use in powering engines

worldwide

Fusion technology also holds great

promise for space travel with NASA

reporting some success in producing

Fusion on a small scale

lattice confinement Fusion a phenomenon

that occurs in the narrow spaces between

atoms has allowed NASA to achieve

nuclear fusion on a small scale

deuterium a common nuclear fuel is

trapped within a solid Metal's empty

space during this process this creates

an ideal environment where atoms can

reach the necessary energy levels for

Fusion without being either supercooled

or superheated the term lattice

confinement may seem complicated but it

is simply a mechanism scientists use to

condense and control the energy produced

by Fusion reactions in contrast tokamax

and stellarators rely on magnetic

confinement to achieve the same goal

magnetic Fusion reactions utilize

intense heat to counteract natural

Atomic forces and maintain plasma

confinement another method inertial

confinement involves compressing fuel to

high levels for a brief moment allowing

Fusion to occur during a brief moment of

time fuel is highly compressed to enable

Fusion as per NASA's explanation the

novel technique involves generating

conditions within a metal lattice

capable of supporting Fusion reactions

while maintaining ambient temperature

although the metal lattice which

contains deuterium fuel may seem to be

at room temperature initially the method

induces an energetic setting within the

lattice that enables atoms to attain

kinetic energies equivalent to those

required for Fusion reactions the fuel

is denser in the new method which

triggers the reaction a metal like

erbium is filled with deuterium atoms

making the fuel a billion times denser

than in magnetic confinement Tokamak

Fusion reactors a neutron source is used

to accelerate the deuterons and when

they collide with another deuteron it

causes DD Fusion reactions when atoms

are closely packed in the atomic lattice

of another element the energy required

for Fusion reduces greatly the lattice

assists in filtering the particles that

pass through and draws the suitable

kinds even closer to each other however

there is a large gap between the energy

rates of individual atoms that resemble

Fusion and the practical application of

nuclear fusion on a commercial scale

NASA views this as a critical first

stride and an alternative to the global

Monumental Tokamak and stellarator

projects e even the most miniature

magnetic confinement Fusion reactors

necessitate Sun hot Fusion temperatures

posing logistical challenges

there are scenarios where such reactors

are not viable even after being

practically scalable researchers are

exploring various reactor types but a

method that eliminates the need to heat

and maintain millions of degrees would

be much simpler it could be suitable for

use cases where magnetic Fusion reactors

are not feasible to achieve this

scientists will have to increase the

rate of atomic reactions exponentially

but they have several strategies in mind

for doing so in a recent unfolding of

events a new technology has been

unveiled in nuclear research called

stellarators nuclear fusion could be

propelled forward with the help of a

twisted reactor that is prepared to move

out of the laboratory and become a

reality Fusion reactors can be

classified into three groups based on

how they contain the super hot plasma

needed for Fusion gravitational reactors

like stars cannot be recreated on Earth

inertial reactors use lasers to contain

the fusion reaction for a short time

magnetic confinement Fusion which uses

superconducting magnets to contain the

plasma is the most promising tokamax and

stellarators are two types of magnetic

confinement Fusion the magnets are

critical to keeping the plasma from

touching other materials in the reactor

as no known material can withstand the

required temperatures for Fusion

although tokamax are considered the

leading concept for commercial Fusion

stellarators have some advantages over

their popular competitor despite being

an underdog type 1 energy a fusion

company that combines expertise from the

Max Planck Institute for plasma physics

and MIT has received 29 million dollars

to bring stellarator technology out of

the lab and into reality Carmichael

Roberts from the bill gates-backed

breakthrough energy Ventures believes

that Fusion is the ultimate energy

source its successful commercialization

will be a massive leap towards achieving

clean and abundant energy for everyone

advances in stellarator science provide

a promising path to practical Fusion on

the grid in in the coming decades

stellarators are similar to tokamax but

do not use a plasma-based current

instead they use a series of twisting

superconducting magnets to control the

plasma although tokamax are easier to

build and there are six times more

reactors than stellarators according to

the international atomic energy agency

stellarators like the wendelstein 7x in

Germany are better at containing plasma

whereas tokamax excel at keeping plasma

hot besides NASA various private

companies such as Princeton Satellite

Systems helicity space and Pulsar Fusion

are investing in developing fusion-based

propulsion systems as the race to

harness the potential of Fusion Energy

nears its conclusion there is growing

interest from corporate entities

the executive director of the fusion

industry Association Andrew Holland

estimates that more than 1.5 billion

dollars has already been invested in

private Fusion Energy startups and huge

government-sponsored efforts the support

for Fusion technology extends to key

figures such as Jeff Bezos Peter Thiel

and Bill Gates while strategic investors

such as legal and general and

traditional fossil fuel energy companies

like equinor eni and Chevron are also

showing a lot of interest Fusion

technology is poised to usher in a new

era in Humanity's quest for energy

making this a pivotal moment for Our

Generation

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