China Develops Artificial Sun

It would seem as if China’s preparations for the Solar Minima, which is set to usher in a mini ice age lasting 350 – 400 years, have already been underway for quite some time.

More on the Solar Minima can be found in the following previous posts:

Talk of ‘Mini Ice Age’ Resumes After Icelandic Discovery

‘Mini Ice Age’ Looms As NASA Scientist Warns Lack Of Sunspots Could Bring Record Cold

Cold Sun Warning! 350-Year Ice Age Starting in Months

 

(Photo Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences)

 

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak generated six times the heat of the sun without any long-term emissions.

China has simultaneously shattered a nuclear fusion record and reported the progress of an ambitious ‘second sun’ project with a recent announcement, which comes less than two years after its projected target.

Germany is getting closer to nuclear fusion—the long-held dream of unlimited clean energy

 

German scientists today will set about the first steps towards what has become the Holy Grail of energy—nuclear fusion, which has the potential for unlimited amounts of clean power. There are a number of challenges to harnessing this power—researchers need to build a device that can heat atoms to temperatures of more than 100 million °C (180 million °F).

After almost nine years of construction work and more than a million assembly hours, researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald are set to do just that by heating a tiny amount of hydrogen until it becomes as hot, hopefully, as the center of the Sun.

Is a Fusion Nuclear Reactor Coming Soon?

The United States technological organization Lockheed Martin says it will produce a working fusion nuclear reactor within five years.  Lockheed Martin says it may have an operating prototype by 2017, and a version for sale by 2022. Fusion involves forcing together atomic nuclei.

But the Lockheed Martin announcement has met with disbelief.  Critics say nuclear fusion as a power source that can be sustained over time will not be developed anytime soon. But they also say that once the process is ready, it will be as huge a development as the discovery of electricity. Whenever it arrives, nuclear fusion promises to be the future source of cheap and safe energy.