“Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.”
Ramez Naam
Even if we don’t have greenhouse gases in the near future or we go out of the fossil fuels present in the current scenario, we have to focus on the energies that are infinite and clean in nature and for that we need a proper infrastructure to harness and convert that energy into the functional form and by clean energy we are precisely talking about Sun i.e., Solar energy and Wind.
China had an energy crisis for a long time as it constitutes the world’s largest population and thereby its research scientists were quite keen on having their hands on the alternatives of non-renewables sources.
Therefore, the whole world witnessed a miraculous event that was the result of their necessary discovery of creating a first of its kind Fusion Reactor named ‘China’s Artificial Sun’ and breaks all the records that can be comprehended until now in human history.
Why has it been considered as the dawn of New Era in the field of creation of energy sources?
An advanced research team of scientists in China have successfully tested a nuclear fusion device that could produce limitless clean energy by producing more heat than our giant star Sun.
The Reactor basically operates at a piping hot temperature of 70 million degrees Celsius which is somewhat seven times as hot as the Sun’s 15 million degree celsius that is currently considered as the almighty source of energy and life on Earth.
It’s quite unrealistic when we put it into perspective, which is that this Chinese device is about 350,000 hotter than an air fryer working on its full potential. It is right now based in Shanghai and termed as The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak ( East) fully functioned for about 17 minutes and 35 seconds in its latest experimental observation which ultimately beats up its previous record of 120 million degree celsius which was set by last year.
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Why a Fusion reactor is termed as ‘Artificial Sun’
The EAST generator is also called an ‘Artificial Sun’ because it uses a similar technique of producing heat as accustomed to our own Giant star Sun, which is a ball of huge gas and plasma in space.
This technique, which is known as nuclear fusion, is quite difficult for mankind to produce artificially. And to successfully deliver a nuclear fusion is somewhat a dream and goal of many physicists and engineers for a long time, therefore this reactor will give them a direction and a vision to cater upon.
The East project of China has a tremendous cost of around £701 million and currently constitutes a working crew of more than 10,000 scientists taking care of all the obstacles that comes under the surveillance.
EAST is expected to cost China more than $1 trillion by the time the experiment finishes running in June, and it is being used to test out technologies for an even bigger fusion project — the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) — that’s currently being built in Marseille, France.
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Sigma’s Regarding China’s $1 Trillion Fusion Reactor ‘The Artificial Sun’
China’s EAST nuclear fusion reactor has set a new world record. It superheated a loop of plasma to temperatures five times hotter than the sun for 17 minutes.
The reactor maintained a temperature of 158 million degrees Fahrenheit (70 million degrees Celsius) for 1,056 seconds. The core of the actual sun, by contrast, reaches temperatures of around 27 million °F (15 million °C). The achievement brings scientists a small yet significant step closer to the creation of a source of near-unlimited clean energy, state media reported. No one has ever managed to create an experimental reactor that is able to put out more energy than it takes in.
ITER contains the world’s most powerful magnet, making it capable of producing a magnetic field 280,000 times as strong as the one around the Earth.
The reactor is called to come online in 2025, and it will provide scientists with even more insights into the practicalities of harnessing star power on Earth. China is also pursuing more of its own programs to develop nuclear fusion power.
The first viable fusion reactor could be completed in the United States as soon as 2025 and a British company hopes to be commercially generating electricity from fusion power by 2030.
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Major breakthrough for Scientists
China’s nuclear fusion reactor that has been proclaimed as an “artificial sun” is officially switched on. This Nuclear Fusion reactor now holds the terrifying record for being able to sustain temperatures five times hotter than real sun for over 17 minutes.
Read: China successfully tested ‘Artificial Sun’: 5 times hotter than the real sun
This Miracle has cost China a whopping $943 billion and the mission is expected to run until June, 2022. The goal is to deliver an endless supply of clean energy by imitating similar reactions that take place in stars like our sun.
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is also slated to offer technical support to the team building a similar project in France.
The ITER is going to become the Globe’s largest Fusion reactor once completed. In the absence of fossil fuels and natural resources, this will serve as the alternate for all the other missions.
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