According to reports, which are not yet backed up by published research, over the past two weeks, a process at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has achieved net energy gain through a process called “inertial confinement fusion”.
"Inertial confinement [con?]fusion" sounds like codespeak to me for Lockdowns and their social impact.
But this is just imho. An opinion about the words used.
I have not yet figured an opinion of the meaning of codespeak "net energy gain". I do note however, that there were a lot of opportunities for transfer of energy (+wealth) during Lockdowns that did result in gain to some.
Again, just revealing myself and my imperfect nature through opinions.
Then, again, my bias against science [abuse] is showing.
Could this be instead seeking a graceful exit from ESG nd ESG policies?
"Inertial confinement" is the technique of obtaining the fusion reaction conditions of temperature and density and duration by a process that occurs so fast, the reaction constituents are "inertially confined" by the inertia resistance of their own mass (instead of by difficult to produce and control electromagnetic fields). This was a technique somewhat employed by the implosion design for nuclear weapons.
"Net energy" means that the energy left over from the reaction less all the energy required by the process is a positive value. Up to this point, it took more energy to create the process than the process would produce (net energy loss).
There is no "codespeak." There is just the common lingo of the fusion physics field, known for half a century by anyone who has studied it.
Is this progress?
"Inertial confinement [con?]fusion" sounds like codespeak to me for Lockdowns and their social impact.
But this is just imho. An opinion about the words used.
I have not yet figured an opinion of the meaning of codespeak "net energy gain". I do note however, that there were a lot of opportunities for transfer of energy (+wealth) during Lockdowns that did result in gain to some.
Again, just revealing myself and my imperfect nature through opinions.
Then, again, my bias against science [abuse] is showing.
Could this be instead seeking a graceful exit from ESG nd ESG policies?
"Inertial confinement" is the technique of obtaining the fusion reaction conditions of temperature and density and duration by a process that occurs so fast, the reaction constituents are "inertially confined" by the inertia resistance of their own mass (instead of by difficult to produce and control electromagnetic fields). This was a technique somewhat employed by the implosion design for nuclear weapons.
"Net energy" means that the energy left over from the reaction less all the energy required by the process is a positive value. Up to this point, it took more energy to create the process than the process would produce (net energy loss).
There is no "codespeak." There is just the common lingo of the fusion physics field, known for half a century by anyone who has studied it.
They have a YouTube channel explaining the concept.