Posted on 12/12/2022 3:04:19 AM PST by fruser1
The August test actually generated more energy than scientists predicted, and damaged some equipment.
Using the world's largest laser, consisting of 192 beams and temperatures more than three times hotter than the center of the sun
One adjustment that helped: Researchers made the fuel capsule about 10 percent bigger and now it's up to the size of a ball bearing.
That capsule fits in a tiny gold metal can that researchers aim 192 lasers at.
They heat it to about 100 million degrees, creating about 50 percent more pressure inside the capsule than what's inside the center of the sun.
The experiments create burning plasmas that last just a billionth of a second, but it's enough to be considered a success.
The fusion reaction in this case produced about 2.5 megajoules of energy, which is about 120 percent of the 2.1 megajoules of energy in the lasers.
'However, the exact yield is still being determined and we can't confirm that it is over the threshold at this time. That analysis is in process, so publishing the information...before that process is complete would be inaccurate.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Using this process, you can heat your home for about the cost of a small mountain of gold.
Bearing balls range from .010” diameter to bigger than a softball. Be more specific.
And what did the apparatus COST?
Divert 5% of the funding they’re burning up and we can have safe and efficient molten salt thorium reactors that run clean, generate almost no high-level waste, and create their own fuel.
I would like to see the headline, “California scientists use world’s biggest laser to vaporize coyote that attacked California two-year-old”.
Fletch was right, it’s all ball bearings.
If you want to boil water to drive a steam turbine - first create the Sun.
Just leave out an ACME catalog and the coyote problem will resolve itself.
Now, instead of always being 20 years in the future, it will always be 19 years and 8 months in the future.
What happened to thorium reactors? Ten years ago Saudi Arabia seemed ready to purchase and install dozens.
Pfff ... contact me again when you get to 1.21 gigawatts.
How clever: a cleaner, quicker way of killing the world’s unwanted population than via mRNA injections.
(Fletch was right, it’s all ball bearings)
These days.
I love that wing.
Terrific shape.
You can buy plutonium at Twin Pines Mall
Or Lone Pine Mall
Paging Dr. McKay...
(They heat it to about 100 million degrees)
Oh, so like a burrito 🌯 in the microwave at the corner gas ⛽ station...
So it happened we are releasing this to the press but we can’t confirm it so don’t release it.
I see what you did there.
Reminds me of teenagers playing with fireworks. It’s all fun and games until someone loses a hand.
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