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Old 11-16-2009   #2
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Re: Laser Inertial Fusion Energy

I watched a show on the Science Channel about this last week. The size of the laser they are using is staggering, even thinking about 1 megajoule is crazy and they want to use 1.4 megajoules. They seem confident of the results with it putting out a ton of energy, but it sounds like they haven't figured out how to sustain the reaction yet. When they fire the laser the reaction only lasts for something like a millionth of a second.

More in depth info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
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