On November 13, the research team announced that the artificial sun had reached a temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius - according to RT. For comparison, the real solar core has a temperature of about 15 million degrees Celsius.
The Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences said it has tested an artificial sun called the Advanced Supernovel Experimental Reactance Load (EAST). The jointly designed energy exploitation equipment in China has a heat generation capacity of 10 megawatt.
EAST is a large circular machine placed inside a circular box. It was tested in the Science Island, Anhui Province in eastern China.
EAST uses nuclear heat to create a huge amount of heat of 100 million degrees Celsius, costing $15,000 a day just to turn on the device.
EAST's goal is to understand the nuclear synthesis reaction and one day use it as an alternative energy source on Earth.
This could pave the way for the use of clean energy - currently nuclear energy is created through the phanption process that leaves behind long-term toxic waste.
This information appeared right after China announced plans to put the artificial moon into use for urban lighting at night. These artificial moons are actually satellites, in the hope that they can replace standard street light to save energy.
