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Monday, 12 December 2022
quote [ The test involved bombarding a pellet of hydrogen plasma with the world’s largest laser to trigger a nuclear fusion reaction, the same process which takes place in the sun.
Researchers were able to produce 2.5 megajoules of energy, 120 per cent of the 2.1 megajoules used to power the experiment. ] Here We Go! Supposedly, official announcement coming Tuesday
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steele said @ 2:49pm GMT on 12th Dec
[Score:2]
This will totally be used to free humanity from the shackles of energy scarcity and not at all be used as a cudgel to continue bringing the world to heel under the status quo of capitalism!👍😁🎉🎉🎉🎉
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endopol said @ 5:33pm GMT on 12th Dec
Yeah, maybe. Scarcity is a big deal. The technical threshold isn't that high.
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steele said @ 5:59pm GMT on 12th Dec
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lilmookieesquire said @ 7:05am GMT on 12th Dec
[Score:1 Interesting]
I wonder if they were able to harness Updog.
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sunjing said @ 7:21am GMT on 12th Dec
I'm a nuclear engineer and I've never heard of that. What's Updog?
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rylex said @ 10:32am GMT on 12th Dec
[Score:1 Funny]
apparently nuclear fusion is what's up, dog.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 4:06pm GMT on 12th Dec
Not much. What's up with you?
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mechanical contrivance said @ 4:08pm GMT on 12th Dec
[Score:1 Underrated]
So instead of perpetually being 20 years away from fusion power plants, we'll now perpetually be 15 years away from fusion power plants.
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Bruceski said @ 7:12pm GMT on 12th Dec
Pretty much. The energy going into the actual fusion reaction is less than the energy that came out by ~20%, but the lasers that put that energy into it are something like 1% efficient and you would lose more converting that heat and radiation into electricity.
Also the current technology can't handle the repeated use necessary for actual power generation. It's an important milestone for science, but nowhere near being a power source yet. |
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moriati said @ 9:58pm GMT on 12th Dec
[Score:1]
Q>1 ... Q greater than one, sounds a little like QAnon - amiright??
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damnit said @ 4:21pm GMT on 13th Dec
[Score:1 Underrated]
But can it run Doom?
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