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Jared Moya
January 22nd, 2006, 09:25 PM
HEFEI, 01/21 - A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China`s Anhui Province.

Experiments with the advanced new device will start in July or August. If the experiments prove successful, China will become the first country in the world to build a full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, nicknamed "artificial sun", experts here said.

The project, dubbed EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak), is being undertaken by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan (37 million U.S. dollars), only one fifteenth to one twentieth the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world.

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Sparky9
January 22nd, 2006, 09:55 PM
If a device is developed that can withstand temperatures as high as 100 million Celsius degrees and control a deuterium-tritium reaction

Sounds like a pretty big "if"
SanDiegoKid
January 22nd, 2006, 10:04 PM
Jun gua shi fungze.
Atheist Icon
January 22nd, 2006, 10:17 PM
I read about it...It was successful for 10 seconds and it actually released 3/4 of the power that was used to create the power. Not in China, but in Japan...i think.

Seems about as easy as Cold fusion...
mountain_rage
January 22nd, 2006, 10:19 PM
They are slowly becoming the worlds superpower. First it was for production, then imports exports now its energy. If they manage to make electricity cheaper then oil then it will open the door for electric cars to take over the market.
black_magiic
January 22nd, 2006, 10:38 PM
That would be pretty cool. Makes me wish I was half decent at math.
shawners
January 23rd, 2006, 08:49 AM
I was wondering if there be away to kill vampires.
SanDiegoKid
January 23rd, 2006, 01:53 PM
Yes, you adjust your currency so that you can sell vampires at a cheaper price than it cost you to make them.

Or... wait... wtf...
thedirtyd
January 23rd, 2006, 08:10 PM
didn't dr. octavius attempt this in spider-man 2?
black_magiic
January 23rd, 2006, 09:25 PM
pretty much
ducttapeBigSexy
January 24th, 2006, 10:31 AM
Let's just hope it's not made to the same quality as most of the China made stuff found in Wal Mart is...