Mystery #4Tier 3a star on earth
Could we build a tiny star on Earth to power the whole world cleanly?
The Sun has been pouring out light and warmth for billions of years, and it never burns a scrap of coal or oil. It runs on a trick played with the tiny centres of atoms. Imagine bottling that same trick in a machine on Earth: clean power, almost limitless. Could we really build our own little star?
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The Sun makes colossal energy without any fuel we would recognise. How do you think it does it, and could we copy that down here on Earth?
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