"My laser-fusion colleagues who depend on their lasers delivering a lot of energy simultaneously to both ions and electrons will certainly be interested in our findings as well."
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-graphite-giant-planets-white-dwarfs.html#jCp Cheers: Axil On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote: > > http://news.newenergytimes.net/2012/11/10/federal-fusion-project-goes-ballistic/ > > The largest inertial confinement fusion research project in the U.S., the > optimistically named National Ignition Facility, in Livermore, Calif., > failed to ignite by its September goal. Although the federal government has > spent $3.5 billion since beginning the project in 1997, the facility did > not produce one Watt of excess heat. > > > An error: "ignition" refers to excess power (fusion energy release) > exceeding input power. It's pretty easy to get some fusion heat, putting > on, what is it, 500 TW of uv laser peak power. Remarkably, thought, I > couldn't easily find numbers for actual peak output power. Or energy. > > The whole concept of Ignition is shaky with the NIF. Supposedly ignition > might mean that the released energy would sustain the reaction, but that > seems impossible with the NIF concept. Instead it might be that it's being > used simply to indicate power out exceeding double power in. Except that > actual power in may be much higher. > > The take-home, though, is that NIF is far, far from practical power > generation. Cold fusion long ago reached this relaxed definition of > ignition. I'll venture a prediction, based on what I've been seeing, that > we'll have practical power from cold fusion long before hot fusion. A > corollary: the huge hot fusion programs will be shut down within a few > years. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:47 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest the collisions > may be producing a new type of matter. > > > http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/lead-proton-collisions-at-large-hadron-collider-yield-surprising-results-1127.html > > http://tinyurl.com/c8nbwzl > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > >
