Heliotron magnetic field containment device

August 1st, 02008 by Alexander Rose - Twitter: @zander

 An incredible photo (click for a really large version) of the Large Helical Device in Japan built to test plasma fusion confinement.  Translation:  This is the beginning of what you need to have your own little star right here on planet earth… Without actually making our little blue marble into a star.  More on the project here.  I post it here just because it is a gorgeous implementation of purpose driven design built at a massive scale.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 1st, 02008 at 3:15 am and is filed under Clock of the Long Now, Technology.

  • http://www.clampants.com Tim

    Beautiful!

    Sort of relatedly, The Big Picture (Boston.com’s blog of, well, big pictures) just ran a series of 27 beautiful (and big) pictures of the Large Hadron Collider:
    http://bit.ly/4uFmTY

    The complexity, enormity, and beauty is fairly staggering.

  • http://blog.longnow.org/2008/08/05/large-hadron-porn/ The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Large Hadron Porn

    [...] posting the image of the Large Helical Device (LHD) several folks sent me links to images of the LHC or Large Hadron Collider (which you want to be [...]

  • http://www.rickumali.com/ Rick Umali

    This picture seems right out of a Ridley Scott sci-fi movie.

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