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2022-12-13 Science & Technology

Something Good For A Change-Fusion Energy Might Actually Be Possible After All

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-12-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Except what they don't say is that they only got more energy than the lasers took, which is NOT all the input energy for this. It's a good milestone but NOT yet on the brink of actually viable.

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-12-13 03:33|| 2022-12-13 03:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Best served cold.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-13 08:37|| 2022-12-13 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Word out of Livermore RadLab: Don't expect big things for another quarter of a century.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2022-12-13 08:47|| 2022-12-13 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't see what the big deal with fusion is. You just get a couple of solar masses of hydrogen, then stand back and let gravity do its thing.

Posted by SteveS 2022-12-13 14:15|| 2022-12-13 14:15|| Front Page Top

#5 One not-so-little problem with fusion like this is that while you can get energy out, you need to couple it to something else to get a usable form of energy--water to make steam to turn turbines, or maybe ionizing gas to (maybe someday) use MHD effects to generate current. But whatever it is, it can't be close or it will interfere with the lasers doing the compression. So you wind up with low energy densities with this approach.

Posted by James 2022-12-13 16:58|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2022-12-13 16:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't know, the solar panels around here were acting more like kites today.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-13 21:46|| 2022-12-13 21:46|| Front Page Top

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