* Posts by BDub

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Fusion boffins crack shreddy eddy plasma puzzle

BDub
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No it ain't

"This is the process which powers the sun,..."

Well - No it ain't. Fusion? Yes. Magnetic confinement fusion/tokamak/ITER,etc.? - No.

The sun is 'powered' by graviational and inertial electrostatic confinement - which are the naturally-occuring processes. Maybe there are some eddy currents and such that make little tokamaks floating around in the sun's outer layers, but that's not the primary process.