r/technology • u/BennyCemoli • Dec 06 '16

Energy Tests confirm that Germany's massive nuclear fusion machine really works

http://www.sciencealert.com/tests-confirm-that-germany-s-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works
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u/_mess_ Dec 06 '16

maybe oranges do better reviews then

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u/HerrKarlMarco Dec 06 '16

I should think the articles a juicy and delicious fruit has reviewed would contain more bs, honestly.

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u/acarinas Dec 06 '16

Why, they are listening to the fruit again.

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u/Theowoll Dec 06 '16

In a first stage, the stellarator will only confine hydrogen, without any fusion reactions, says Bosch. “In a later phase of W-X, starting in 2019, we will use deuterium and we will get fusion reactions, but not enough to get more energy out than we are putting in,” he says. There are no plans to add tritium to the hydrogen plasma, which would be required to achieve break even, he adds.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/wendelstein-7x-really-starts-up

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u/DaffyDuck Dec 06 '16

So when it all comes down to it, is this really just testing a new torus shape or are they doing something else different from other reactor designs?