Hate it when that happens...
Nobody seems to know what happened to Kaslin, but Red Badger, you’ve definitely taken her spot.
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The problem with fusion is, and has always been, that it requires more power to start and maintain it than you can get out of it. As someone once said, “fusion will always be achieved just ten or twenty years from now.”
Wait. What? This guy is a scientist?
That's how thing work in the real world, bunky.
Like getting to the moon. 4k bytes 8-bit processor computers get us there, and today gigabyte processors with terabyte storage can't.
“releasing 1.3 megajoules of energy for 100 trillionths of a second”
No.
releasing 1.3 megajoules of energy IN 100 trillionths of a second. Which is 100 picoseconds.
And it wasn’t 10 quadrillion watts, it was 13 quadrillion watts, or 13 terawatts.
It didn’t happen then.
When you can’t replicate an initial measurement after repeated tries, it’s time to question your first measurement.
Remember cold fusion?
Scientists have confirmed that last year, for the first time in the lab, they achieved a fusion reaction that self-perpetuates (instead of fizzling out) – bringing us closer to replicating the chemical reaction that powers the Sun.Then they didn’t confirm it. Why did you say they confirmed it, Felicity?
However, they aren’t exactly sure how to recreate the experiment. …
This led to a lot of jokes at work.
Then I ordered boxes of the parts I needed to construct more. I envisioned building at least 10 and possibly more fingers the same way. But the new parts didn't fit exactly like the first one causing too much friction, and the wood split on me.
I haven't worked on it in a long time, but am torn between getting my 3D printer working or trying to get a mobile base working.
Project for another day.
Your first sentence proves that you don’t know what you are talking about. The sun is powered by a nuclear reaction, not a chemical reaction.
100 trillionths of a second doesn’t seem very self-sustaining to me.
Since this was laser ignition of a fuel pellet, it is always going to fizzle out.
What they claimed was that the fusion energy generated by the pellet was larger than the input laser energy. I’m not sure whether that was the beam energy or all the energy required to generate the laser beams.
What they can’t replicate is to get the same amount of energy out of igniting another pellet.
Although sold as a fusion energy experiment, the laser ignition experiment is really to research basic fusion physics with the objective of improving fusion weapons.
Since this was laser ignition of a fuel pellet, it is always going to fizzle out.
What they claimed was that the fusion energy generated by the pellet was larger than the input laser energy. I’m not sure whether that was the beam energy or all the energy required to generate the laser beams.
What they can’t replicate is to get the same amount of energy out of igniting another pellet.
Although sold as a fusion energy experiment, the laser ignition experiment is really to research basic fusion physics with the objective of improving fusion weapons.
I fell for the first nuclear fusion hoax over 40 years ago... took my kids out to the beach to celebrate a new world. Not fallen for any of ‘em since.
Fusion is a dish best served cold.
Scientists Achieved Self-Sustaining Nuclear ConFusion… But Now They Can’t Replicate It
there fixed it