Chinese scientists have managed to create a hydrogen gas that is 3 times hotter than the sun and could eventually be used as an inexhaustible source of power, ending the world’s reliance on fossil fuels.
Chinese boffins created the gas in a huge magnetic fusion reactor at the Institute of Physical Science in Hefei; invented by Soviet scientists in the 1950s, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) features a massive metallic chamber twisted into a ‘8’. The researchers were able to use the reactor to produce temperatures of 50 million Kelvins (49.999 million°C) and maintain them for 102 seconds; and the core of the sun is believed to around 15 million Kelvins.
By:Archa Dave
