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Engineering360: "Fusion ignition lauded at LLNL"

12/13/2022 11:45 AM

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Re: Fusion ignition lauded at LLNL

12/15/2022 9:19 AM

"The ignition threshold was surpassed as the system delivered 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output."

Contrary to the media hype, they can't start selling electricity until the output energy far exceeds the total energy input, the input power to the lasers plus whatever energy is needed to create the fuel pellets.

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