Sunday, August 14, 2022

Fusion news: We have ignition.

Ladies and gentlemen; ignition has been achieved.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers....

Ignition is a fusion reaction that produces enough energy to keep itself lit, according to the press release. This is not a self-sustaining reaction, where it keeps going as long as you keep adding fuel, but baby steps.

Bussard ramjets, baby! Dream big!

2 comments:

Fenris Badwulf said...

Wow. Some sort of decent project for mankind after we recover from woke

The Phantom said...

Right? Earth to Mars in a few days.

I'd be satisfied with a natural gas pipeline to New Brunswick at this point. Imagine being able to sell LNG to the Germans right now. We'd make some bank, baby.