[ExI] Fusion News

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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:

> https://phys.org/news/2025-01-chinese-artificial-sun-fusion-power.html
>
> Last month, China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) 
> achieved a sustained temperature of over 100 million degrees C for 1066 
> seconds. To put things into perspective, the core of the sun is about 15 
> million degrees C. This means that for almost 18 minutes a magnetically 
> confined manmade plasma was burning 6 times hotter than the sun. To 
> think that we belong to a species that in our finest moments is able to 
> achieve cosmic significance even if it is but for few seconds. Vive 
> l’Humanité!

Very inspirational! Thank you for sharing! =)

> Stuart LaForge
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