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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday June 05 2021, @06:03PM   Printer-friendly

China maintains 'artificial sun' at 120 million Celsius for over 100 seconds, setting new world record:

China broke the record by keeping the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) by achieving plasma temperature at 120 million Celsius for 101 seconds and 160 million Celsius for 20 seconds, a major step toward the test run of the fusion reactor.

The Tokamak devise[sic] is located at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is designed to replicate the nuclear fusion process that occurs naturally in the sun and stars to provide almost infinite clean energy through controlled nuclear fusion, which is often dubbed the "artificial sun."

The achievement broke a previous record of maintaining the plasma temperature at 100 million C for 100 seconds. According to Li Miao, director of the physics department of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, it is a milestone in reaching the goal of keeping the temperature at a stable level for a long time.

"The breakthrough is significant progress, and the ultimate goal should be keeping the temperature at a stable level for a long time," Li told the Global Times, adding that the next milestone might be to maintain the stability for a week or more.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by jelizondo on Sunday June 06 2021, @12:17AM (9 children)

    by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 06 2021, @12:17AM (#1142196) Journal

    I have some questions.

    According to reputable sources (i.e. Forbes [forbes.com]) the number of mainland Chinese going to America, Europe and Africa is around 150 million [statista.com] each year, spending about 250 billion U.S. dollars, making them the top spenders.

    Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students [studyinternational.com] study abroad, mainly in the U.S. and Europe.

    For those of us old enough to remember, when the Soviet Union was a thing, many performers, diplomats and basically anybody who could, would defect and claim asylum in any foreign country they could reach.

    Funny thing is, the Chinese return home after their vacation abroad or after concluding their studies. (Yes, yes; some stay abroad but most return and those who stay abroad come back to visit family.)

    If China is such a gulag, why the hell people return? Clearly, the western media is not telling us the whole story and so the question is: what are they not telling us?

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 06 2021, @01:19AM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 06 2021, @01:19AM (#1142215) Journal

    China has 5000 years of culture that the Soviet did not have.

    Brainwashing is probably too harsh and polarized a term, but the Chinese are most certainly conditioned by their culture, just as we are conditioned by our own culture.

    The CCP takes advantage of that conditioning in ways that were impossible for the Soviet. Racial and cultural homogeneity works in their favor. Any and all prejudice that a Han Chinese meets in his travels only reinforces his indoctrination.

    The individual Chinese is far more apt to tolerate abuse from the state that almost no one, anywhere, will tolerate from their own government.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jelizondo on Sunday June 06 2021, @04:09AM (2 children)

      by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 06 2021, @04:09AM (#1142246) Journal

      I'm sure you know that in most countries people are not allowed to own guns, so from an American point of view, those governments are repressive and undemocratic.

      Most European countries have national health services, paid by taxpayers and are horrified of the American private insurance scheme.

      What constitutes "abuse" depends on your point of view.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @11:33AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @11:33AM (#1142333)

        I'm not a Chinese citizen and never would want to be one. But I bet you many Chinese citizens are happy to feel safe walking down the street in Shanghai and not need a gun at all to feel safe.

        Many have seen too many idiots in their 1+ billion population (pooping in airplane aisles, fountains, etc) and are not brainwashed and conditioned by the NRA to think that everyone having easy access to guns makes them safer in practice.

        Lastly, non-retards know that a fucking gun wouldn't have saved Tank Man from the tank, in fact holding a gun would probably have got him killed faster than him holding a shopping bag. But US retards are a special breed of retards. So I can't wait for the day the NRA or similar regularly lends/gives every Super Bowl attendee a gun so that they can all shoot the bad guys shooting at people... ;)

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday June 06 2021, @12:48PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 06 2021, @12:48PM (#1142344) Journal

        I'm sure you know that in most countries people are not allowed to own guns, so from an American point of view, those governments are repressive and undemocratic.

        And I'm sure you're aware that there's a significant firearm control movement in the US. Just like any other country, there are huge differences of opinion as to the value of firearm ownership and its value to a democracy.

        Personally, I would consider such a government a bit more repressive and undemocratic because due to those firearm restrictions they are more repressive and undemocratic. Allowing significant firearm ownership demonstrates a level of empowerment and responsibility delegated to the public, a very democratic thing.

        Most European countries have national health services, paid by taxpayers and are horrified of the American private insurance scheme.

        As we all should be. That doesn't mean that a well-run national health service would be better than a well-run private insurance scheme (my thinking is otherwise). The US system is deeply and thoroughly broken, with no intent to fix in sight.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @05:57AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @05:57AM (#1142275)

      > The individual Chinese is far more apt to tolerate abuse

      And inflict it. That's the disaster happening in our universities that so happily took the Chinese students and now fill their staff with Chinese graduates.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @02:04AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @02:04AM (#1142222)
    • (Score: 2) by jelizondo on Sunday June 06 2021, @04:02AM

      by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 06 2021, @04:02AM (#1142241) Journal

      I wrote mainland Chinese in order to avoid Hong Kong because ethnical Chinese in that island were brought in a western society with western values and expectations.

      The sources you use to claim "strawman" is a survey of fucking 224 Chinese! (Yes, 224. It does not even compute in the error bars of a proper survery.) I quoted over a 150 MILLION Chinese leaving the country and returning every year.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @11:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 06 2021, @11:24AM (#1142330)

    Perhaps the racial discrimination they receive from people like you is worse than what they're getting from the CCP?

  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday June 07 2021, @07:54PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday June 07 2021, @07:54PM (#1142873) Journal

    To get a Green Card here in the US the average Chinese person needs to have a job lined up already unless they already have relatives here.

    That right there filters out the vast majority of Chinese people who would like to live here.

    Of the people who are able to overcome the various obstacles to emigrating anywhere, the US is by far the most popular. And, the Chinese immigrant population is growing very quickly.

    So most of the people returning have no other choice.

    Chinese Immigrants in the United States [migrationpolicy.org]

    The population of Chinese immigrants in the United States has grown nearly seven-fold since 1980, reaching almost 2.5 million in 2018, or 5.5 percent of the overall foreign-born population. Whereas in 1980 Chinese immigrants did not appear among the ten largest foreign-born groups in the United States, China in 2018 replaced Mexico as the top sending country. After immigrants from Mexico and India, the Chinese represented the third largest group in the U.S. foreign-born population of nearly 45 million in 2018

    China is the main source of foreign students enrolled in U.S. higher education, and its nationals received the second-largest number of employer-sponsored H-1B temporary visas in fiscal year 2018, after Indians. Chinese nationals received nearly half of EB-5 investor green cards in 2018.

    The United States is the top destination for Chinese immigrants, accounting for almost 27 percent of the more than 12 million Chinese living outside of China, according to mid-2019 estimates by the United Nations Population Division.

    Compared to the overall foreign- and native-born populations in the United States, Chinese immigrants are significantly better educated and more likely to be employed in management positions. Almost 30 percent of Chinese who obtain lawful permanent residence in the United States (also known as getting a green card) did so through employment-based routes; the remainder qualified through family ties or as asylees.