— The U.S. Department of Energy said Sunday it would announce a"major scientific breakthrough" this week, after media reported a federal laboratory had recently achieved a major milestone in nuclear fusion research. The Financial Times reported Sunday that scientists in the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had achieved a"net energy gain" from an experimental fusion reactor.
This image provided by the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory shows the NIF Target Bay in Livermore, Calif.The LLNL spokesperson added that their"analysis is still ongoing."The fusion reaction that produced a 120% net energy gain occurred in the past two weeks, the FT said, citing three people with knowledge of the preliminary results.
This illustration provided by the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory depicts a target pellet inside a hohlraum capsule with laser beams entering through openings on either end. The beams compress and heat the target to the necessary conditions for nuclear fusion to occur.Nuclear fusion is considered by some scientists to be a potential energy of the future, particularly as it produces little waste and no greenhouse gases.
Nuclear fusion news are jokes. It's the same with the cure against HIV, they found one every year since 1996, but where is it? 🤣
What real geniuses are working on.
The article said 10 years away from commercial application. So in 10 years, we’ll have clean nuclear fusion reactors in buildings? Really, seems like this should be a bigger deal…
Clown show. No one cares what CBS News says. No one.
The real breakthrough would be when you admit to election interference
Yeah...I remember this from the 80s
Sounds like a better alternative than depending on China.
Shared.
suppressed tech we've had for decades. No one's releasing it
Let's just say, whisper in my ear when there's a experimental reactor that is able to produce significantly more energy than needed to sustain the process for a significant amount of time and wake me up where there's a full scale reactor doing the same with even better numbers.