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Re:Laser fusion facility heads back to drawing board by bananapub on Monday July 25, 2022 @05:39AM (#32222311)
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where in the world have you seen anyone that is planning to try to use inertial confinement fusion for energy production?

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Re:Laser fusion facility heads back to drawing board by pfdietz on Monday July 25, 2022 @07:26AM (#32222965)
In the present tense, maybe not, but in the past this was a real thing (or, at least, people were pretending it was).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy

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Re:Laser fusion facility heads back to drawing board by bananapub on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:33PM (#32227923)
> LIFE, short for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy, was a fusion energy effort run at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between 2008 and 2013.

ie an American nuclear weapons laboratory was doing it

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Re:Laser fusion facility heads back to drawing board by pfdietz on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:54PM (#32228288)
The game played with inertial fusion is that when the energy people are skeptical, say it's about weapons, and when the weapons people are skeptical, say it's about energy.
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