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The man -made sun the size of a pea and the fate of Albatrossihi Wizom
American physicists held the first thermonuclear reaction with formally commercial indicators, in Russia they are looking for a replacement for
Albatrosses die on fishing hooks, swallow plastic garbage, because of people they do not have enough food. But if you choose good news for the holiday - let it be like that. The oldest wild bird in the world, Albatrossih Wazam of seventy-one years from family finally returned to her native Hawaii! Ornithologists have been following her since 1956. On the paw is her ring with the number Z333.
But in general, the end of the year we meet with the news from the field of science and technology, somehow related to its main political event - a special military operation that erupted in February. Over the past decades, there was nothing that had so much influenced this sphere of life. Literally everything has to be built again. But will it turn out better or cheaper?
Vimpelcom, Megafon and Tele2 included roaming in the DPR, LPR , Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions . MTS will be connected soon. Most of these areas are controlled by Ukraine, but the State Commission on Radio frequencies has already gathered to allocate the frequencies of GSM, UMTS and LTE standards in these territories for Russian operators.
The information impotence of the Russian military registration and enlistment offices during mobilization gained an assessment in the government. To create automated jobs in military commissariats and connects to broad -lamp Internet access (it is necessary to synchronize their databases with data from the Federal Tax Service, Pension Fund, GAS “Elections” and the registry office) will spend 2.5 billion rubles. It oversees the Ministry of Defense, but it will be executed by civilian "Rostelecom". Therefore, it is highly likely that everything will turn out: earlier the signalmen without shoulder straps have already done this in schools, feldsher-obstetric centers, state and municipal authorities, in the "Rosgvard", fire units, police sections and teirisbirromes. It turns out that the department of Sergei Shoigu was the last.
The departure of foreign companies from transport telematics from our market forced a large and medium -sized business to urgently look for the replacement of control systems for traffic flows and a fleet .
And Sberbank expires a certificate of Internet acquiring to work in foreign browsers issued by the Belgian certification center Globalsign (most online stores are tied to our financial flagship, which is not suspected of a simple user). Local apocalypse will take place on February 15-customers need to switch to Yandex Browser or look for new stores.
The Duma was offered to ban remote work to citizens who left Russia. Of course, the vast majority of ITSHNIKS. The Mincifers stood on its hind legs, disagreeing with the final loss of the most advanced part of the company, with which the ministry has large further plans.
At the same time, the mincifers discusses with the market players the introduction of free of telephone spam: operators will tell us which company calls, on the screen of a smartphone, citizens will see the calling number and organization-medical center, bank or “prison call center”.
... But there is a world of great discoveries and research that will reveal new horizons to our descendants, as the armed. The main event of the unlucky year is the reaction of a controlled thermonuclear synthesis, spent on December 5 at the Liverrand National Laboratory named after E. Lawrence in the USA. True, an inexperienced reader, having familiarized himself with the details, will not be impressed.
Installation occupies a building the size of the stadium. She uses 192 lasers of an incredible peak power of 500 trillion watts. Their ultraviolet rays synchronously fir with a tiny golden container, the size of a little finger.
The container transfers radiation to X -ray. X -rays squeeze the diamond target the size of a pepper pea inside the container. Diamond target is a kind of vessel, there is a mixture of deater and tritium, hydrogen isotopes.
The surface of the target evaporates and a shock wave occurs to its center. In this tiny space, temperature and pressure are created as in the center of the star. In the hydrogen mixture, a thermonuclear synthesis reaction begins, during which energy (including heat) is released more than spent on the initial impulses of lasers.
This is how the installation of the size of a more shopping center Ikea lights the man -made sun the size of a pea. And all this lasts a meager fraction of a second that is not able to fix the human consciousness. The energy of thermonuclear synthesis in this experiment cannot even be used for practical purposes.
Why did this inspire scientists all over the world? Attempts to conduct a controlled thermonuclear synthesis has been conducted for 70 years. The task was extremely difficult. Equipment and experiments become more expensive and more expensive. Politicians of the leading countries of the world who allocate money for science are already beginning to doubt the feasibility of this venture in principle. A couple of decades of such an exhausting race, and a controlled thermonuclear synthesis will become in the minds of society in a par with the square of the circle and the eternal engine. Supports numerous projects throughout the Earth only the consciousness that people have already successfully carried out an uncontrollable thermonuclear synthesis in a hydrogen bomb.
And for the first time it was possible to create an attitude that received a “peaceful thermalon”. The proof of this is that the lasers spent 2.05 MJ of energy on an impulse, and as a result of the reaction, scientists received 3.15 MJ.
This means that the efforts are not hopeless, and the environmentally friendly source of unlimited energy reserves is possible.
All this, of course, is the matter of the future. One and a half times more powerful than American, installation is mounted in Sarov, at the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics. Its launch is planned next year.
In addition, the most gigantic and expensive in the history of mankind the scientific installation of ITER (the international experimental thermonuclear reactor of the Tokamak type) has been built in France since 1992.
It is based on a different principle - the retention of plasma, in which a continuous thermonuclear reaction flows, superconducting magnets. It is being built by the European Union, USA, Russia, India, China, South Korea, Japan and Kazakhstan.
The goal is to get a long -term thermonuclear reaction and data for the construction of a reactor with commercial prospects.
Participation in this project, which is supposedly launched around 2030, is a subject of pride for any country. The installations of thermonuclear synthesis in the Libra -Laboratory, Sarov or France are created by generations of the best representatives of the human race. They will survive all wars, the crash of regimes and political ambitions generated by our worst qualities.
On New Year's Eve, I hope that we will live until the launch of the first industrial thermonuclear power plant. Why not? The female Albatross Wezema has been living for 71 years contrary to fate - after all, albatros has been living for no more than 30 years.