Does this announcement indicate that fusion as an energy source is near? Unfortunately not. NIF does some great science but fusion has long suffered from over promising so we should make sure we have appropriate context for these results.
400 MJ needed to power the flashbulbs that powers the fuel, this produces a 4 MJ IR laser pulse which is frequency converted to a 2 MJ UV laser pulse. This means obviously that the 3.15 MJ is obviously not larger than the total energy spent on the system. There are undoubtedly huge energy efficiency gains to be made in the laser, as efficiency was not the goal
https://news.newenergytimes.net/2022/12/11/fusion-energy-breakthrough-scam/
The energy is clearly not recovered. A functional Fusion plant needs some kind of energy recovery system in place. Similar to steam engines, it’s a one time heat expansion and the energy is lost.
The net energy gain is achieved only within the capsule where they can heat up the fuel to 150 million degrees Celsius. There is NOT a net energy gain for the entire reactor.
Is there a new “green energy” or climate agenda push?did they expend their ammo once again on DJT’s major announcement?
Methinks it is comms TBH.
Anything nuclear = power.
The headline reads: "Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes. Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.”
Fusion = the process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity. e.g. "the election results produced pressure for fusion of the parties"
So, they are talking about the joining of powers, and the hope that corruption will become eliminated i.e. clean power. Net power gains refers to winning IMO.
We know that zero-carbon is both a lie, and a euphemism for human annihilation, after all, we are made from carbon compounds. Our food is made from carbon compounds - i.e. carbohydrates, fat (hydrocarbon) and proteins (amino acid compounds), and we each exhale darbon dioxide, so zero carbon = zero humanity. So, offering an alternative via technology, may be a reference to Twitter = big tech.
just spitballin
Another interpretation regards fossil fuels = legacy (dinosaur) media.
when i saw this a few days back, i thought it was comms about truthsocial & twitter energy producing far better returns than expected
What they keep referring to is ITER fusion
What’s on the back burner are Cold Fusion and Zero Point energy Anti Gravity.
Nikola Tesla, guess who had the original Tesla research? John G Trump