Lawrence Livermore lab repeats fusion breakthrough

[Cloxxki]

Lawrence Livermore successfully repeats fusion breakthrough • The Register

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have repeated their breakthrough fusion experiment, which nominally produced more energy than it consumed.[/size]
The US security-linked institution claimed a world-first in December last year when it produced 3.15 megajoules of fusion energy as output, exceeding the 2.05 megajoules delivered by the 192 lasers that kickstarted the nuclear fusion reaction.[/size]
Researchers have since been working to refine the technique and learn more about the field. On July 30, it repeated the feat. "As is our standard practice, we plan on reporting those results at upcoming scientific conferences and in peer-reviewed publications," a spokesperson told the Financial Times.[/size]

Article goes on. Also made it to Reuters, etc.


I'd like to see a bigger number (who doesn't) but perhaps they didn't want to overdo it in the press?[/size]

[stivep]

Lawrence Livermore successfully repeats fusion breakthrough • The Register

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have repeated their breakthrough fusion experiment, which nominally produced more energy than it consumed.

Yes but that energy  doesn't violate  rules of physics
And many of you are hunting concepts  that are rejected by physics
Wesley

[DavidWolff]

Yes but that energy  doesn't violate  rules of physics
And many of you are hunting concepts  that are rejected by physics
Wesley

Wesley are you some sort of gate keeper on some out of date 16 century shock horror laws of rejected physics that knows nothing about Electronics or dark secrets of the American war industry. or anything else back in those days gone by.
So what makes you so fixed in your ways if you don't mind me asking ?

[lancaIV]

https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/laser-focused-power-and-finesse-drove-nifs-fusion-ignition-success
LLNL scientists took advantage of a modest increase in NIF's laser energy output to 2.05 megajoules (million joules, or MJ) of ultraviolet energy.
https://www.quora.com/How-efficient-are-the-most-efficient-lasers

Laser input energy ,UV-radiation ?
F.e. : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1350449522004662         
        https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/2/233
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/high-power-laser-science-and-engineering/article/highenergy-highrepetitionrate-ultraviolet-pulses-from-an-efficiencyenhanced-frequencytripled-laser/4E05A2F68F00725F1FF5251F782ADC56

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