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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by dd36 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:33AM (#33981882)
There’s not plenty of energy in a lightning strike.

https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/is-there-...

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by HPsquared on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:30AM (#33982191)
Funnily enough it's about the same order of magnitude as the fusion event discussed in this TFA: about 1 MJ.

Energy from one hohlraum ≈ energy from two lightning strikes

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