The worlds largest nuclear fusion machines have been just fired for the first time announced the physicists in Germany.
The machine was successfully able to contain plasma, which are nothing but super-hot blobs of helium gas.
Stellarators are extremely difficult to construct.
It took scientists about 19 years of to construct W7-X.
Scientists have already built several working doughnut-shaped fusion reactors known as tokamaks.
In other words, Tokamaks consume more energy than they generate.
Everything went according to plan, said Hans-Stephan Bosch, who led the team.
It has never been the point of W7-X to generate energy.
so that show that the stellarator concept actually works, this rig is simply used as a proof-of-concept.
Or as aptly put by this commenter on YouTube: Help us Wendlestein 7-X, youre our only hope.
Resource:ScienceAlert
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