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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: knightstorm on February 13, 2014, 12:44:41 pm

Title: Laser Facility Blasts Way to Fusion First
Post by: knightstorm on February 13, 2014, 12:44:41 pm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/02/140212-laser-facility-blasts-way-to-fusion-first/ (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/02/140212-laser-facility-blasts-way-to-fusion-first/)

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Overall, the experiments produced about 17 kilojoules of energy, "about the same as a skier going downhill at 36 miles [58 kilometers] per hour," Hurricane said. "We're talking about fusion energy coming out, more energy than was put into the fuel."

Title: Re: Laser Facility Blasts Way to Fusion First
Post by: Sirgod on February 13, 2014, 03:07:18 pm

I read about this early this morning.

I am so glad to see the NIF getting the results they wanted. We now know it is possible, now just to be able to use that same energy, to power the lasers again and again, etc. It will be a win win.

Stephen