This could be exciting!
Originally shared by Daniel Suarez
Stellarator fusion reactor ready for tests.
In the next day or so, German researchers will for the first time switch on the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator fusion reactor -- the largest ever built. Housed in the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Greifswald, the €1 billion machine looks like a prop escaped from the film 'Event Horizon.' However, its unusual shape serves a specific purpose, as seen in the video below.
More info available here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6259/369.full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=72&v=u-fbBRAxJNk
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Still thinking through this, myself. This seems a useful place to start. Originally shared by Allen “Prisoner” Firstenberg What can should ... -
Sounds like something that would be exacerbated with a large increase in the number of launches. Fluctuations in GPS could have major effect...
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