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It's a big deal, it will change the way people live. Hopefully it also help to eliminate wars, the war for the natural resources and land.
Maybe. Fusion energy might be more expensive than current forms or has undesirable yet to be known side effects. People said the same of nuclear and here we are.
It's a big deal, it will change the way people live. Hopefully it also help to eliminate wars, the war for the natural resources and land.
Maybe. Fusion energy might be more expensive than current forms or has undesirable yet to be known side effects. People said the same of nuclear and here we are.
Sci-if authors have been talking about both solar and fusion for years, and now solar has been industrialized why wouldn’t we be excited to see progression in fusion?
Can someone ELI5 why this is significant over previous fusion experiments?
Previous Fusion experiments, even though we could get Fusion reactions to occur, required more energy to start and sustain the reaction than was generated from it. For the first time, more was generated from the reaction than put in.
> This is indeed a promising and exciting result, but we need to remember that this does not take into account the energy required to run the lasers that confine the reaction and other inefficiencies and losses.
https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-fusion...
It's still entirely possible that we will not see a fusion reactor in production within our lifetimes.
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Minus the laser power supply, is it correct?
Press release states: "meaning it produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it." The 2.05 MJ put into the reaction includes the laser power supply then, it would seem, unless they are bad at press releases. But 2.05 MJ is not a lot of power.
Every breakthroughs starts from government (people) funded initiatives, congrats to everyone involved, a future without the need to generate selfish profit is at reach!
It's a big deal, it will change the way people live. Hopefully it also help to eliminate wars, the war for the natural resources and land.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Minus the laser power supply, is it correct?
Press release states: "meaning it produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it." The 2.05 MJ put into the reaction includes the laser power supply then, it would seem, unless they are bad at press releases. But 2.05 MJ is not a lot of power.
It's a big deal, it will change the way people live. Hopefully it also help to eliminate wars, the war for the natural resources and land.
Maybe. Fusion energy might be more expensive than current forms or has undesirable yet to be known side effects. People said the same of nuclear and here we are.