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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: China reveals fusion tech breakthrough
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 19:40:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 10:28:33 -0700, john larkin wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 17:04:27 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:34:06 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 17:04:08 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>On 6/23/24 07:20, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>>> China reveals fusion tech breakthrough:
>>>>>   https://www.rt.com/news/599707-china-fusion-tech-tokamak-plasma/
>>>>>    A commercial ?artificial sun? has achieved its first plasma
>>>>>    discharge,
>>>>>    the developer says
>>>>> If you have trouble accessing the link because of censorship by your
>>>>> polly-tick-sisons revolt!
>>>>> 
>>>>> <partial quote from article>
>>>>>   According to the developers, as cited by Chinese media,
>>>>>   the HH70 tokamak is smaller and cheaper to assemble than its
>>>>>   predecessors.
>>>>>   The device uses a magnetic system made from high-temperature
>>>>>   superconducting material,
>>>>>   commonly known as REBCO (Rare Earth Barium Copper Oxide).
>>>>> 
>>>>>   It can reportedly be manufactured on a large scale,
>>>>>   reducing the cost of Energy Singularity?s tokamaks.
>>>>>   Moreover, the HH70 device, according to the company,
>>>>>   is only 2% the size of conventional tokamaks  ? providing a major
>>>>>   advantage in the race to produce a commercially viable device.
>>>>> <end quote>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well that's it for ITER then!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>A plasma discharge is a breakthrough? I can do that in my microwave
>>>>oven.
>>>>
>>>>Jeroen Belleman
>>> 
>>> Stick an NE-2 neon bulb in the microwave!
>>Grapes are cheaper and work just as well for this kind of demo.
> 
> The neon indicates faster. I wanted to see how fast the magnetron turns
> on.

And how fast did it turn on? They don't use actual cavity magnetrons, do 
they?