[fruser1]

Jury is still out.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Using this process, you can heat your home for about the cost of a small mountain of gold.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Bearing balls range from .010” diameter to bigger than a softball. Be more specific.

And what did the apparatus COST?

[xp38]

I think I've seen this movie before...

[Dogbert41]

I would like to see the headline, “California scientists use world’s biggest laser to vaporize coyote that attacked California two-year-old”.

[GMThrust]

Fletch was right, it’s all ball bearings.

[MMusson]

If you want to boil water to drive a steam turbine - first create the Sun.

[Jonty30]

Now, instead of always being 20 years in the future, it will always be 19 years and 8 months in the future.

[70times7]

Pfff ... contact me again when you get to 1.21 gigawatts.

[spirited irish]

How clever: a cleaner, quicker way of killing the world’s unwanted population than via mRNA injections.

[A_perfect_lady]

The August test actually generated more energy than scientists predicted, and damaged some equipment.

Paging Dr. McKay...

[SaveFerris]

(They heat it to about 100 million degrees)

Oh, so like a burrito 🌯 in the microwave at the corner gas ⛽ station...

[pas]

So it happened we are releasing this to the press but we can’t confirm it so don’t release it.

[George J. Jetso]

Reminds me of teenagers playing with fireworks. It’s all fun and games until someone loses a hand.

[logi_cal869]

“… creating about 50 percent more pressure inside the capsule than what’s inside the center of the sun...”

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A concession of scientific error.

[Delta 21]

So why dont they just leave this thing turned on and our power needs for EVs is solved? !

[Flick Lives]

Using the world’s largest laser, consisting of 192 beams and temperatures more than three times hotter than the center of the sun...

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Shark not included

[VTenigma]

Just another 30 years and we’ll have commercial fusion power. And I forgot to mention, free beer tomorrow.

[momincombatboots]

O good. California has this. The state that was deeply involved in putting Hitler in power. What could go wrong.

[VanShuyten]

If it turns out to be true, even if the total cost is ignored, this is a great step in eliminating all the windmill and solar panel people. That alone is worth the research money.

[Vaduz]

World’s largest laser, consisting of 192 beams and temperatures more than three times hotter than the center of the sun.

Climate control cult making calls for protest?.