In November 2021, the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California achieved a historic step forward for inertial confinement fusion.
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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Fusion has arrived my friends, it is has arrived.
No it hasn't. Wake me up when fusion power is credible as an energy source (I know, "within 50 years" as always.)
12/08/2022 6:34 PM
The 50 years is not the number you need think about. First of all NIF is about scientific discoveries. What has done is more like the Higgs discovery of the recent experimental realization of a space time wormhole on a quantum computer on the Google machine. It may take some years but like quantum computing once it is realized it is will be short time after it is becomes mainstream. I think in 5 years you will NIF applications and 10 years we will just have assumed fusions was always with us. Lux Fiat
Same drivel I've been hearing since I was in college 50 years ago.
12/10/2022 9:10 PM
Something big is on way...very big. Stay tuned.
News is all over place free energy!!!
Does anyone know why the keep saying Arizona scientists? Does U of A have a laser team in LLNL?
"Arizona scientists may have discovered a source of unlimited clean energy by recreating the process of nuclear fusion which powers the sun.
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California were able to spark a fusion reaction that briefly sustained itself - a major feat because fusion requires such high temperatures and pressures that it easily fizzles out.
The experiment was performed in August, but reported for the first time earlier this month. Similar tests have been performed before, but this was the first one that generated more energy than was used to create the experiment - meaning scientists could now harness nuclear fusion as an energy source. "
The August test actually generated more energy than scientists predicted, and damaged some equipment.
But it could now represent a groundbreaking moment in humankind's move away from fossil fuels like oil and coal to completely clean energy sources that do not pollute the air, or scar landscapes with mining or pipelines.
The ultimate goal, still years away, is to generate power the way the sun generates heat, by pushing hydrogen atoms so close to each other that they combine into helium, which releases torrents of energy.
A single cupful of that substance could power an average-sized house for hundreds of years, with no carbon emissions