China to build world's first "artificial sun"

[Sasq]

A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province.

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/21/eng20060121_237208.html

wonder if we can get these at wall mart by the end of the year?

[Jessterw]

Oh but the Walmart version would break often or after only a few months.

Should be interesting to see the changes this will cause if sucessful.

[Jammrock]

It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan (37 million U.S. dollars), only one fifteenth to one twentieth the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world.

hmmm ... slave labor, no government contract kickbacks (or at least less), larger workforce in the world ... I can see that.

[rugger]

It is good news that china are very heavily reasearching nuclear fusion.

Maybe they will get it working and show us how things are done

[cjolley]

...no government contract kickbacks (or at least less)...

I wouldn't count on that.
China is the business equivalent of the wild west right now.