On August 31, 2012, a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun’s atmosphere, the Corona, erupted out into space. Credit: NASA, via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0
A commercial “artificial sun,” or tokamak, has achieved a world-first for a private company, generating plasma at 180 million degrees Fahrenheit, which is the temperature at which fusion can take place.
UK-based Tokamak Energy announced that its privately funded ST40 spherical tokamak had achieved an important temperature milestone on Thursday, calling it “the threshold required for commercial fusion energy.”
World-first “artificial sun” hits key milestone, heating up race for clean energy
Even though several government-funded fusion experiments, such as the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research, have hit this temperature milestone, this is the first time a private fusion company…
Artificial Sun Hits Key Milestone, Heating Up Race for Clean Energy
