China to build world`s first "artificial sun" experimental device

[Jared Moya]

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]

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]

Jun gua shi fungze.

[Atheist Icon]

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]

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]

That would be pretty cool. Makes me wish I was half decent at math.

[shawners]

I was wondering if there be away to kill vampires.

[SanDiegoKid]

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]

didn't dr. octavius attempt this in spider-man 2?

[black_magiic]

pretty much

[ducttapeBigSexy]

Let's just hope it's not made to the same quality as most of the China made stuff found in Wal Mart is...