I’d never heard of the stellarator concept before, so it was interesting to hear that this kind of large-scale…

I’d never heard of the stellarator concept before, so it was interesting to hear that this kind of large-scale engineering work was going on to examine the concept.

Even better are the results of an image search for
 [Wendelstein 7-X], which honestly look like some kind of alien technology.

h/t Stefan Iaru 

http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/10/feature-bizarre-reactor-might-save-nuclear-fusion