Laser fusion experiment yields record energy at NIF
http://nnsa.energy.gov/blog/laser-fusion-experiment-yields-record-energy-nif
http://nnsa.energy.gov/blog/laser-fusion-experiment-yields-record-energy-nif
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Hear hear, that will certainly solve NIF's problem. But I guess what you really want is NIF to never reach fusion, so do not fund it.
Ten shots a second on NIF is a wet dream. What NIF is, is just another toy to keep the well to do employed and a toy for weapons research which noone cares about and is not needed. We all know they work when need be and they all will be fine just as long as you keep up the maintenance or build replacements. The five billion + dollars should have been spend on building wind turbines. We'd have been far ahead and actually gotten something useful for our tax dollars.
Ten shots a second on NIF is a wet dream. What NIF is, is just another toy to keep the well to do employed and a toy for weapons research which noone cares about and is not needed. We all know they work when need be and they all will be fine just as long as you keep up the maintenance or build replacements. The five billion + dollars should have been spend on building wind turbines. We'd have been far ahead and actually gotten something useful for our tax dollars.
"We all know they work when need be and they all will be fine just as long as you keep up the maintenance or build replacements."
Just remember Maxwell at the turn of the century, who claimed all discoveries in physics have been done.
Also I fail to see the connection between your ten shots claim and the August 28, 2013 at 5:48 PM post.
But I guess you just mix and match your arguments in any way to make a point.
Great scientific mind
Not going to happen, ever !
When is the next version of NIF with the 512 arms going to be announced. It's a corporate contractors wet dream. I'm sure that's what the review will decide is needed to get this thing to actually work. MOX and NIF ... let the good times roll and the huge Yachts sail!
Totally agree!!! NIF is an excuse to entertain physicists. Employ them doing useful research to help us address today's energy and climate crises.
Without taking a position one way or the other on NIF, that is pretty stupid. "No more money for you until you accomplish what we were giving you money to do." What are they supposed to do--have a bake sale to keep going? Car washes? Not to mention that, again, whether one thinks it a good idea or not, they do have a mission that's not about fusion per se.
The mission of EOS does not have to be done. The weapons work and as any good mechanic knows. If it isn't broke, don't fix it. You guys are just sucking the tax payer dry for all they have to assure you still have a job. There's your per se mission bubby.
If anyone dares to looks inside the black box at the burning cash, it disturbs the experiment due to "Schroedinger's Cat" quantum phenomena and the fusion will not be seen. Therefore, peer review is not necessary and non-NIF scientists should just shut-up and see to it that more loads of cash are constantly shoveled in to the NIF facility to keep the NIF employees protected, fat & happy.
What we do without NIF keeping our stockpile safe, secure, and reliable".
HO HUM