San Francisco Chronicle – Fusion energy progress by Livermore scientists
San Francisco Chronicle – Fusion energy progress by Livermore scientists
By David Perlman | 11 April 2012
Livermore scientists report that after years of experiments, they have moved closer to reproducing the blazing energy of the sun’s interior in the laboratory.
A team of physicists and engineers at the $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility said they fired an array of 192 laser beams, focused “in perfect unison,” and created a single pulse of energy that for 23 billionths of a second generated a thousand times more power than the entire United States consumes in a single second.
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