Laser fusion test results raise energy hopes
BBC
30-Jan-2010 (one comment)

A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show.

The controlled fusion of atoms - creating conditions like those in our Sun - has long been touted as a possible revolutionary energy source.

However, there have been doubts about the use of powerful lasers for fusion energy because the "plasma" they create could interrupt the fusion.

An article in Science showed the plasma is far less of a problem than expected.

The report is based on the first experiments from the National Ignition Facility (Nif) in the US that used all 192 of its laser beams.

Along the way, the experiments smashed the record for the highest energy from a laser - by a factor of 20.

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Bahram G

Holy Grail of Energy?

by Bahram G on Sat Jan 30, 2010 07:22 AM PST

Wow! I know little about all the ramifications involved. Yet, I have been reading for years that this the Holy Grail of Energy. How will it actually work and how much hazards may be involved? I don't know. Yet, as for now, it sounds very exciting. Go SCIENCE, go! Let us use science and technology to promote and enhance life for all, rather than those darned facilities and programs that promise death and destruction. Will humanity ever mature? Not in my time, I am afraid. Not with dark ages savages such as the akhoond in Iran and other beasts in power.


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