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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Chinese tokamak
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:41:35 -0700
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:49:30 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

>The US led on nuclear fusion for decades.
>Now China is in position to win the race: 
> https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/climate/nuclear-fusion-clean-energy-china-us/index.html
>
>China's EAST tokamak in Hefei held plasma stable at 70 million degrees Celsius
> - five times hotter than the core of the sun - for more than 17 minutes, 
>a world record and an objectively astonishing breakthrough. 

Sounds expensive and useless, like the Chinese moon landings. 

Feed the kids first.