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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months ago

China’s ‘artificial sun’ sets nuclear fusion record, runs 1,006 seconds at 180 million°F

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 months ago
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China's "artificial sun," officially known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), has achieved a groundbreaking milestone in fusion
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    I feel like in the millions of degrees it is fine to use america numbers. Seeing it in C isn’t gonna give anyone a more accurate understanding.

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      Or we could use what everyone else uses

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        At 160 million we may as well just be using kelivn.

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          Have you considered that it’s never okay to use America anything including numbers?

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            Fahrenheit does have a wider range of whole numbers to express the temperatures in our daily climate. Unfortunately the digital thermostats I had for years, even one in Shanghai, would step in 0.5 deg increments regardless of it being in F or C. I assume it was using K internally throughout the system, so keeping it in F meant more granularity (68, 68.5, 69 being more specific temps than 20, 20.5, 21 could dial in). And it was noticeable enough to where I’d keep it in F (except one time when I was sick and wanted in between the two possible F setpoints).

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          At that scale they’re equal

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      lol yeah it’s very hot

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      You can divide by two and be roughly correct (÷1.8 even moreso). The offset is negligible.

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        Dividing 160million by 1.8 is not gonna help me understand things any better I fear.

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