By Manila Ryce
Published Saturday, July 29th, 2006, 9:27 pm
Filed under: World: Asia, Economic, Science and Technology, World Issues
The first test run of China’s fusion reactor will take place on August 15th. It will be conducted at the aptly named Science Island (which is much nicer than Monster Island) in Hefei, in east China’s Anhui Province. As the largest developing nation in the world, China has a great need to pursue alternative energy sources such as fusion. If the test is successful it would be a milestone for humanity. The goal is to make fusion, a cheap and clean energy, commercially viable. Chinese researchers have assured the international community that all radiation will cease once the test is complete. The reactor is housed inside a structure with five-foot-thick reinforced concrete walls and a three-foot-thick roof.
Nuclear fusion works opposite to fission. Two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium and tritium, will be heated into plasma. Under such high temperatures the plasma particles fuse to form helium and high speed neutrons, releasing tremendous amounts of energy. In fact, one kilogram of a hydrogen isotope will produce approximately 10 million times more energy than a kilogram of fossil fuel. Tritium is manufactured from the metal lithium, and deuterium is extracted from water.
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Fusion Power could’ve been the future of Nuclear Energy in the US, but it turned out to be Really Hard, (Wah!) for us to engineer a practical plant for American infrastructure. Yes, Good ol’ Coal and Oil are just easier, (If you call starting and engaging international war easier than research and developement.) Once again, China proves the old adage about the difference between the ones who talk and the ones who walk. When it comes to things like renewable energy and environment, the US spends all it’s time bitching about how unfeesible it is, while China just went ahead and did it. One example is with the Kyoto agreement and emissions standards, which currently no US manufactured automobile is even close to passing, and now with a potentially infinite renewable alternative energy source. Maybe our bible thumping administration would like to call this a hoax as well, as they continue to tout Coal as the next energy source. That’s right, COAL, the energy of the future. So just to review, China will have Fusion, We will have COAL. I think I should start learning Cantonese now.
07/30/06 at 2:38 pm