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To: TimF who wrote (307)	12/15/2022 10:55:50 AM
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Fusion… not twenty years away after all Perry de Havilland (London) · Science & Technology At the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, it appears they have finally managed to achieve a meaningful breakthrough. What just happened? Researchers at the NIF have announced that, for the first time, they have managed to do just that. The team used 2.1MJ of energy to heat the fuel with lasers, releasing 2.5MJ of energy. Is that a lot of energy? No, not really. The difference – 0.4MJ – is about 0.1kWh. That’s about enough energy to boil a kettle to make a few cups of tea. The first flight at Kitty Hawk was about 180 feet, but it proved it would be done. samizdata.net