CHINA CLAIMS SUSTAINED FUSION REACTION FOR 17 MINUTES

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by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

This story is a great way to kick off the new year of 2025, and was shared by D.R. (with our gratitude), and for reasons that will become apparent, I have filed this fusion story under the “geoengineering” tab.  This story captured my imagination because, as most people know, one of my favorite “patterns” to watch is that which Catherine Austin Fitts pointed out as recently as our last Solari wrap-up together: every time “they” get into a pickle, or the news cycle turns into areas or patterns “they” don’t like, there a story about this or that energy breakthrough somewhere. The other part of this pattern is the one that is my pet peeve: make an announcement, every few months, about the “latest fusion breakthrough” in “hot fusion” reaction. If you’ve been following the stories, or my occasional blogs about them here on this website, usually these stories convey the impression that real sustainable fusion power is right around the corner, and with it, many of humanity’s pressing energy problems will be resolved.  Then the story continues with the announcement that some new record of a sustained hot fusion plasma reaction has been established, and usually, these “breakthroughs” have been in the form of a few seconds, or under the best conditions, a minute or so.

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That’s what this article from D.R. so caught my attention, because now China is making a claim of sustaining a (very) hot plasma for over seventeen minutes:

China’s artificial sun maintains 100 million °C plasma for over 17 minutes, setting a new world record

Seventeen minutes is, like it or not, a very large leap forward to what we were used to just a few years ago. But notably, the article lacks any detailed information on whether a fusion reaction was actually sustained for that amount of time.  All we’re really told is that a very hot plasma was sustained for seventeen minutes, an accomplishment in its own right.

But there’s more:

The ultimate goal of an artificial sun is to replicate nuclear fusion, similar to the process occurring in the sun, to provide a source of limitless clean energy and facilitate space exploration beyond the solar system.

To my knowledge, this is the first time that such an announcement or article has been accompanied by the claim that fusion will enable space exploration beyond the solar system. The unspoken part of this claim is that it will provide power for bases on other planets. THen we get this, and it once again bring up my primary difficulty with all such stories:

Scientists worldwide have worked for over 70 years to achieve this milestone. However, a nuclear fusion device can only successfully generate electricity if it achieves temperatures exceeding 100 million °C (180 million °F), sustains stable long-term operation, and ensures controllability.

Achieving viable nuclear fusion on Earth requires plasma temperatures hotter than the sun’s core to compensate for Earth’s smaller mass, according to scientists. The core of the sun is estimated to reach approximately 15 million °C (27 million °F).

“A fusion device must achieve stable operation at high efficiency for thousands of seconds to enable the self-sustaining circulation of plasma, which is critical for the continuous power generation of future fusion plants,” said Song Yuntao, director of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (ASIPP). He emphasized that the new record is of monumental significance, marking a critical step toward developing a fusion reactor. (Emphasis added)

Once again, we’re treated to the usual hot-fusion model: high temperatures, and an implicit understanding that gravitation and mass plays a roll in the confinement and containment of the plasma, but in this case, the article hints at some conceptual relationships that – to my amateur’s knowledge, anyway – has been lacking from such articles previously, namely, the idea that the smaller mass of the Earth requires a much hotter sustained temperature in the plasma that is supposed to produce the fusion.

And this little factoid leaves me with a couple of questions, the latter of which brings me to my typical Monday plunge off the twig of high octane speculation – very possibly in this case, ridiculous speculation – into the canyon below. My first question is, of course, did the Chinese really do this?  or was it perhaps a politically motivated announcement in the wake of mr. Trump’s inauguration, a message as if to say, “Not to worry folks, we’re still the technological leaders and fusion is on track and on schedule.” We’ll get back to that geopolitical implication – the not-so-ridiculous high octane speculation – in a moment.

But now for the Monday plunge into the speculation canyon: if one has to account for the gravitational mass of the Earth in order to engineer a sustained hot plasma fusion reaction at several millions of degrees hotter than the Sun itself, then this implies that “gravitational engineering” is a component of such fusion engineering. Now, we’ve known this for some time, and I’ve actually argued the case in a few of my books that this fact means that when one fires of large hydrogen (fusion) bombs, the yields for the exact same type of bomb will vary depending on the time and place, that is to say, the local space-time matrix or lattice work, that one explodes them. This is because, in my opinion, the bomb momentarily acts as a transducer of that local geometry and its inherent energy, and that local geometry, pace Einstein, is exactly what creates and shapes the energy. It is this lattice work idea that is the unifying concept both in hot and cold fusion modelling (recall, for example, that one model that is used to explain the phenomenon of cold fusion among those scientists willing to believe it actually occurs is “LANR”, or “lattice-assisted nuclear reactions.” In cold fusion’s case, the lattice is provided by the metal crystal – palladium or some such metal – being used). The interesting thing about this approach is, of course, that equations allow you to operate on both sides. For example, in general relativity, a very heavy mass, like a star or a planet, bends or warps the local space around the mass, such that light actually bends in the field. But imagine reversing or flipping the thought process: if a large mass warps local space, could a local space warp not produce a large mass, or at least, the effect thereof?  Answer: yes. So by parity of reasoning: if the engineering problem of hot fusion is to replicate the effect of the much larger mass of the Sun by heating the fusion plasma to a much higher degree, then could one not engineer a local gravitational effect through similar means?

And that, dear reader, is my ridiculous high octane speculation of the day.

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