Without major hardware additions, will NIF ever reach ignition, or did they believe early on, it would take at least ~400 lasers to reach the ignition goal?
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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I also agree with 8:44 AM especially the bit about Capt Cook as after all Ed Moses had to be sacrificed on scientific shores by primitive people. The analogy is exact and one to one.
Ok if you don't buy the above argument, we are going to spend 3 Trillion dollars to keep people home I think we can spare a few billion for people to play with lasers. It keeps people paid, it keeps LLNL science going, it will kill a few people, so what is not to like? With trillions and billions to spend why not let some people play in sandboxes?
I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but I agree fusion research should continue. How the funding is divided up is another question that requires impartial peer review.
5/14/2020 5:14 PM
Everything is political, fusion science is similar to the how critical literature departments work.
"I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but I agree fusion research should continue. How the funding is divided up is another question that requires impartial peer review.
5/14/2020 3:41 PM"
If you give away trillions of dollars it is no longer possible to be cynical. A few billion for NIF would be fine in this case.
5/14/2020 4:40 PM
Name one.
The review this year should clarify a lot for the ignition program.
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"Name one."
How about name ALL that claimed or agreed NIF would have enough energy for ignition as constructed first.
5/17/2020 1:59 PM
"I heard..." does not equal "knowledge."
5/17/2020 5:11 PM
But it is more likely to be knowledge than " I have heard nothing". Not to mention that " I heard" could also mean I know for sure but I am not going give away who I am and what I know, as saying bad things about NIF could be considered by some as a bad move.
What is more probable.
NIF, achieving ignition
You dying of Covid-19.
Look at how much money we have spend on the lockdown, I think we can spend a few billion more on NIF.