It does work. We just need to scale it.
Posted on 12/13/2022 3:07:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
California scientists may have discovered a source of unlimited clean energy by recreating the process of nuclear fusion which powers the sun.
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Livermore were able to spark a fusion reaction that briefly sustained itself - a major feat because fusion requires such high temperatures and pressures that it easily fizzles out.
The experiment was performed in August, but reported for the first time earlier this month. Similar tests have been performed before, but this was the first one that generated more energy than was used to create the experiment - meaning scientists could now harness nuclear fusion as an energy source.
The August test actually generated more energy than scientists predicted, and damaged some equipment.
But it could now represent a groundbreaking moment in humankind's move away from fossil fuels like oil and coal to completely clean energy sources that do not pollute the air, or scar landscapes with mining or pipelines.
The ultimate goal, still years away, is to generate power the way the sun generates heat, by pushing hydrogen atoms so close to each other that they combine into helium, which releases torrents of energy.
A single cupful of that substance could power an average-sized house for hundreds of years, with no carbon emissions.
Using the world's largest laser, consisting of 192 beams and temperatures more than three times hotter than the center of the sun, the researchers coaxed fusion fuel for the first time to heat itself beyond the heat they zapped into it - achieving a net energy gain.
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Containment. Containment. Containment.
They have been working for at least 50 years in search of a bottle to put that excess energy in. If you want the process to be continuous you need to pull that energy out and store it.
If you can’t do that it will just fizzle out.
I remain sceptical.
There’s a great idea! Could we send a large quantity of Hydrogen and a couple lasers to the Woohan? A little mis-handling could clean up the bat problem permanently.
Just in time for peak lithium as the metal gets harder to mine and more scarce.
“The experiments create burning plasmas that last just a billionth of a second”
wow! just think what it would mean if/when they can sustain such a reaction for a million times that long! oh, wait that would be only a millisecond ...
It does work. We just need to scale it.
Yes, like you we have been lied to for decades. At least this article said “ ultimate goal, still years away”. I won’t believe it until I see a real world, working plant.
yes already at peak lithium. THere is only enough to make 10B leaf batteries which are 1/2 the size of the tesla.
Probably more like the dawning of the Age of Aquarius what with all the godless agendas going on.
Great song, but......silly.........
“yes already at peak lithium. THere is only enough to make 10B leaf batteries which are 1/2 the size of the tesla.”
That is 7x the total number of cars in the world!
And we are opening up new lithium mines.
You are correct about “Blondie”, but every other cartoon was about Dagwood eating his trademark sandwich.
My guess is that this significant, but not commercially viable breakthrough for decades, was released to prop up the unviable push for EVs. Seeing the Marxist State Muppets already talking about the “nearly free electric” just around the corner to power all those EVs. And in the real world, the electric will not be free or nearly free. There will be the astronomic cost of the production facilities, maintenance of the distribution system, bribes and payoffs, etc. 30 or so years from now at the earliest. Remember, just around the corner cold fusion E-Cat with its nearly free electric.
Can it be scaled beyond lab bench object?
Does it require vast amounts of unobtainium to make?
When it becomes efficient and cost effective, people will buy it.
Based on the above, I don't see how the above can be characterized as dawn. But I was just a fission manipulator a long time ago.
“. Remember, just around the corner cold fusion E-Cat with its nearly free electric.”
The scientific community never supported the E-Cat. That was just a scam.
After WWII we were told we would be able to power our homes with nuclear energy for pennies, PENNIES, a day.
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