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While the temperature of what is called Astro Rey reaches about 15 million degrees Celsius, the Chinese artificial analogue "burns" at 100 million degrees.
Mexico City, November 15 (RT / SinEmbargo) .- Chinese research teams have managed to create a artificial sun, better known as Advanced experimental superconducting Tokamak (EAST, for its acronym in English), able to overcome temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius. The Hefei Physical Science Institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that their solar electrons had reached this calorific value this year, during a four-month experiment.
EAST is a device for obtaining nuclear fusion energy and has been designed to mimic the way the Sun generates its enormous caloric and luminous energy. Unlike its Chinese counterpart, the true star in the center of our solar system has a much lower temperature in the heart, about 15 million degrees Celsius.
The Chinese tokamak EAST achieves a new record pressure in H mode, the first in 60 seconds #fusionenergy https://t.co/9gCk1n1Hx6 pic.twitter.com/WJNWqbXwKz
– General Fusion (@GeneralFusion) November 17, 2016
The goal of this "artificial sun" is to study nuclear fusion to be able to use it one day as a source of alternative energy. Unlike fission nuclear energy, which leaves toxic waste, the energy from nuclear fusion could be clean.
The artificial sun is not the only invention of the Chinese in this area. In October, it was announced that Chengdu City, in Sichuan Province, had drafted an ambitious plan to launch an artificial moon in 2020 that would illuminate its streets at night and replace its streetlights.
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