Has anyone got anything more about the recent Chinese claim of producing fusion power from their 'EAST' reactor. They claim the production of two hundred thousand amperes of fusion generated current at a temperature of a hundred million degrees of the plasma for a duration of three seconds. They plan ultimately to continue the experiment hoping to boost generation time up to a thousand seconds or more. See URL: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/28/1835241 for the initial post on slashdot; and the following long URL from Reuters:
http://today.reuters.com/news/ articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-09-28T121949Z_01_PEK359321_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-FUSION.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C5-scienceNews-2 And here is the shorter URL for the story from Xinhua: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-09/28/content_699035.htm China claims to want to build about 30 nuclear projects by 2020 to help deal with their energy shortages in their industrial sector and to accomodate future growth. Does'nt look as if they want to wait for ITER! Standing Bear PS The Chinese are also interested in the Shawyer photonic drive device. Wanted to buy the rights to it. Output of this reactantless drive uses Einstein's laws and is greatly amplified using cryogenic techniques.. see recent issue of "New Scientist". Presumably a greatly improved cavity 'Q' would give this the punch of a Space Shuttle Main Engine or more. All they need is power.......... SEE ABOVE! Maybe this is the first puff of wind from a storm that will blow us into a new era. I left something out, but it is in the 'New Scientist' article.
