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China's commercial 'artificial sun' achieves first discharge(www.globaltimes.cn)

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NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Fuck yeah

Do we have to call it an “artificial sun”? Because that’s… weirdly sinister. And “tokamak” or “plasma reactor” sound badass already.

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Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Do we have to call it an “artificial sun”? Because that’s… weirdly sinister.

nah that sounds cool too

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duderium [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Tokamak is a Soviet word

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emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.net
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tokamak = hotboxing your car in the McDonald’s drive thru line

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NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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China is the dream; they’re like one of the few countries and only super power that’s actually working towards the betterment of humanity

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emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.net
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没有共产党，就没有新中国

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GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Please translate!

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Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Without the Communist Party, there would have been no New China

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Zvyozdochka [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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This reminds me, the Korean version of this song goes so hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD5pAHYEC6Q

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blakeus12 [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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hey i actually read this!

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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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China: Trying to make the world a better place.

America: Trying to monetize the rot.

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GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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God China is winning so much right now

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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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Wow we need to nuke china RIGHT NOW and destroy this.

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Black_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.net
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The sinister chinese are causing global warming by creating a second sun, don’t they know it’s dang hot enough!!

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Owl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Technically they’re already nuking themselves by building this.

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Deinonychus [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Artificial sin

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420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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I’d imagine, but I found this interesting:

Currently the maximum Q value achieved by humans is 1.53.

Had no idea someone had managed to get more energy out of a fusion device than they put in. Must have been unable to sustain it for any significant length of time, but still seems important.

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Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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It was big news I want to say about a year ago when a team first published that they had done it

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Owl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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The Q=1.53 was done at the National Ignition Facility using inertial confinement fusion, which is significant for plasma research (and probably bombs), but can’t be used to generate power.

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impartial_fanboy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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It was the NIF two years ago but it’s also not going to be generating power ever, it was just a demonstration/proof of concept.

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QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Also this is just plasma gain, not whole system gain. To have a commercially viable reactor your probably need Q total > 10 at least. No system build so far even has a Q total of 1

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GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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By 2027 the goal is Q>10

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Black_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.net
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headlines that could be very different with a single letter change

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AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.net
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cummercial

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Black_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.net
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I was thinking “artificial son”

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FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.net
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American science just can’t compare

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