It's Confirmed! Laser Fusion Experiment Hit a Critical Milestone in Power Generation

Science Alert ^ | 06 February 2024 | CLARE WATSON

[Red Badger]

Only 30 years away Ping!....................

[Skwor]

Here we go again, always just a decade away but never a bride.

[dfwgator]

Fusion is the future, and always will be.

[Red Badger]

Well, they’ve gone way beyond the 1.21 jiggawatts...............

[MRadtke]

Only 30 years away Ping!....................

LOL! When I was in high school in the 70’s, fusion power was only 20 years away. Either we’re slipping, or time really is running backwards!

[PeterPrinciple]

Better money spent here than global warming, cooling, climate change, racism, perversion, etc.

[ComputerGuy]

When they fire that mother up, lights dim all over the world.

[bunkerhill7]

Confucius say man who do fusion have confusion.

[Red Badger]

We will have nuclear fusion about the time we put people on Mars................

[SaveFerris]

I need 1.21 gigawatts......I need to go back and fix a few things......

[plain talk]

Good news for the long-term.

[BipolarBob]

I told them the dilithium crystals would work. Now if they only listen to me on my warp drive propulsion project.

[jacknhoo]

“Commercial nuclear fusion facilities are still decades away, says University of Manchester nuclear fusion researcher Aneeqa Khan, when we need to almost halve global carbon emissions in the next 6 years – by 2030 – to turn the climate around.”

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Carrying the atheist neopagan fascists’ water.

[Yo-Yo]

Fusing two Hydrogen atoms into one Helium atom, creating vast power and a replacement source for Helium that is used for MRI machines and other superconductor uses.

A win-win.

Pity it'll never be commercially viable.

[verum ago]

Well, they got more out of the fuel than the laser delivered, so that’s nice. But I’m sure they didn’t ‘break even’ when taking into account:

-powering the lasers
-powering the confinement scheme
-running the vacuum pumps
-refining the fuel
-cooling everything
etc etc

That’s the thing about these fusion “break even” reports: it’s largely a matter of zooming in to the fine scale. It’s kind of like saying your running back “advanced the ball!”, but then you realize he moved it half a yard out to the one yard line, and the end zone is still 99 yards away.

Still, it’s progress.

[OHPatriot]

I’m surprised that Aneeqa Kahn didn’t mention that there is only one sure way to halve global carbon emissions in the next 6 years.

Use Thermonuclear Fission to apply the “final solution” to roughly 5-6 Billion people and coupling that with the effects of Nuclear Winter, all the Global Warming issues will be a thing of the past.

You all know that this is the “final solution” most favored by Nazi Klaus Schwab and his WEF stooges. Fusion is just a diversion.

Sarcasm??

[moovova]

Also good for laser tattoo removal...

[Aevery_Freeman]

We could just use fission if we used Thorium which has a benign decay series.

The fact that we don't speaks volumes about the power of traditional Big NRG and our coin-operated Congress.

[Dr. Sivana]

Dick Tracy had fusion in the early '80s! They were right on with the 2-way wrist TV (Apple iWatch), but I am still waiting for "Fusion Now!"