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Can we repurpose the ASML machine as fusion drive? Asking for a friend. Especially when lithography in near future will move from EUV to X-ray, the difference between NIF and ASML would become even smaller (or may be ASML would even use Sandia Z alike).
Here the machine is using tin, which isn't suitable for fusion (no energy is released beyond iron).
Can we repurpose the ASML machine as fusion drive? Asking for a friend. Especially when lithography in near future will move from EUV to X-ray, the difference between NIF and ASML would become even smaller (or may be ASML would even use Sandia Z alike).
you may be thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy Here the machine is using tin, which isn't suitable for fusion (no energy is released beyond iron).
Can we repurpose the ASML machine as fusion drive? Asking for a friend. Especially when lithography in near future will move from EUV to X-ray, the difference between NIF and ASML would become even smaller (or may be ASML would even use Sandia Z alike).
Nice article, although I think this must be a typo: "Despite the fact that a supernova has 1045 times as much energy as our tin blasts, the same math describes the evolution of both types of explosions." Maybe they meant 10^45 times as much energy?
Can we repurpose the ASML machine as fusion drive? Asking for a friend. Especially when lithography in near future will move from EUV to X-ray, the difference between NIF and ASML would become even smaller (or may be ASML would even use Sandia Z alike).
Not really, the temperature used for EUV or X-ray generation is still several magnitudes away from fusion.