Big News at the Livermore Labs Today - Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Blast of 192 Lasers

[Wlachnit]

Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Blast of 192 Lasers

Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Blast of 192 Lasers

The advancement by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers will be built on to further develop fusion energy research.

www.nytimes.com

Big news today. Congratulations to Michael @merickson45 and everyone else that is /has worked on this project at LLNL! Ironically, Michael was just telling me last week how he is a physicist working on the world‘s biggest laser, but did not inkle at all on the breakthrough. Very cool!

 

[sfsuphysics]

Wow, actual net positive energy gain? Sweet. Now the next bit is to find a way to actually capture and use more energy than was put into it so that this kind of reaction can be self sustaining.

Well I guess the pessimist in me says the next bit is to replicate the experiment to make sure the results weren't a malfunction of the equipment.

 

[JVU]

So awesome. Science and engineering for the win.

Welcome news to make the future more hopeful!

 

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Makes me wonder, Where's Tony ? @Gomer

 

[BAYMAC]

Makes me wonder, Where's Tony ? @Gomer

Tony hasn't been around since 2014.... I see him on FB though

 

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Tony hasn't been around since 2014.... I see him on FB though

Yeah, he moved long ago to NM? But I think it was way before 2014. I bet he'd say something really cool about lasers