Wendelstein 7-X live stream

[rustigsmed]

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/livestream_e_16

This the world’s largest and most modern fusion device of the stellarator type has already been working since the beginning of December 2015 with a helium plasma as preparation for the first hydrogen plasma. The objective of fusion research is to derive energy from fusion of atomic nuclei just as the sun does.

[OICURMT]

I've been watching the painfully slow progress of ITER for years... (http://www.iter.org/).

Watching the meeting now. Glad to see the Germans have at least progressed...

[glend]

While an impressive engineering feat, and construction project, and a massive investment, the resulting flash of light after the Hydrogen gas 'puff' was pretty disappointing. I had been expecting steady state operation and that testing would have been completed by now. :shrug:

[multiweb]

That timelapse was amazing. What an incredibly complex piece of engineering.