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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by BeetleB on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:48PM (#33972677)
Can solid state lasers produce the high energy needed here?
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by Robotbeat on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:58PM (#33972890)
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy#M...
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by px43 on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:37PM (#33977164)
I'm not really seeing any convincing numbers there. Mercury lasers seem to only be 10% efficient. I get that this is better than the lasers that were just used at NIF, but that still seems pretty far from useful.
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by Robotbeat on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @07:41PM (#33978464)
It’s useful enough to produce significant net energy if they continue with the gain scaling that ignition allows.
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