The Sun Can Relax

28
March 2019

China has officially registered a new world record in temperature. Plasma was heated to one hundred million degrees Celsius! Just to compare, the core of the Sun is almost seven times colder. The city of Hefei, which is often referred to as a Science Island for its ultra-modern laboratories and research centers, now has the unique thermonuclear reactor, Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), in which physicists heated plasma to record levels by combining various types of heating.

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More than one hundred million degrees Celsius means the beginning of a new era in the energy sector. The ratio of the energy expended and the energy released as a result of the synthesis is in favor of the latter. That is, the experiment confirmed the serious commercial prospects of the project.

However, China Daily published another energy sensation. Chinese scientists, together with their British colleagues, created an organic material capable of splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The process of photosynthesis-based generation stimulates lighting. So far, researchers have not reached the scale of industrial production, but, as you know, demand determines supply, and hydrogen engines are already turning the wheels of popular Japanese and Korean cars.

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