Good news! I blogged here in August about this event, but it does not hurt to repeat this extraordinary event.
If humans can realize nuclear fusion on earth to generate our energy supply, then the dawn of a new age has arrived!
E.g. the medieval Global Warming hoax and the Climate Change religion will finally be thrown into the dustbin of history, where they belong!
E.g. the medieval Global Warming hoax and the Climate Change religion will finally be thrown into the dustbin of history, where they belong!
"... On 30 July, the 192 lasers of the stadium-size National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory instantaneously crushed a tiny capsule filled with deuterium and tritium, heavy isotopes of hydrogen. In doing so, they prompted a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the laser beams shined onto the target. It was the second time in 8 months that NIF has achieved “energy gain” in an experiment. ...
NIF scientists presented the details at last week’s International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications ... Thanks to NIF, laser fusion—a type of “inertial confinement” fusion—is the only technique so far to achieve gain and to sustain the reaction with its own heat, creating a so-called burning plasma ... “No other fusion device has ever produced a robust burning plasma.” ...
Fusion is often touted as the energy source of the future because its fuel can be extracted from seawater and lithium, both of which are abundant on Earth. It would produce no carbon emissions and only relatively short-lived radioactive waste. Most government-funded efforts focus on doughnut-shaped devices called tokamaks, such as the international ITER project under construction in France, ... Dozens of privately funded companies are building variations on the tokamak and other innovative devices. So far, however, no magnetic confinement machine has achieved the extreme temperatures and pressure needed to achieve gain. ..."
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