How Big Is the U.S. Fusion Breakthrough?
(nymag.com)
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The odds are high that this is a distraction and not a real break through. If you do the math, this is not a practical method of energy generation.
Based on some easy to perform calculations, I concluded if one used this 200 laser method to generate 1.1 MJ (300 Watt-hr) on a large enough scale to power the US electrical grid in 2021, you will need 135 million gallons of (deuterium & tritium) water. Just saying.
...it is just another money laundering operation using "science" as the vehicle....
Higher probability than not. And we are suppose to wait 10 years to find out.
...sadly true....