[ExI] Fusion breakthrough

[sjatkins]

I am excited by the news but I wonder as a matter of engineering how far this gain of energy result is from a practical fusion electrical plant much less the fusion rocket engines I have dreamed of since I was a kid. 


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On Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 at 7:20 AM, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:


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> Quoting Dave Sill:
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> > We interrupt this conspiracy theory discussion for some interesting
> > science news.
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> > -Dave
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> Right? You would think that people would be dancing in the streets,
> knowing that their children wouldn't have to fight to the death over
> the last barrel of oil, eat each other, or hold hands singing Kumbaya
> while the lights went out forever. This is huge. This gets Malthus off
> of our backs for the foreseeable future and moves us much closer to
> becoming a space-faring type I civilization. I literally cried when I
> heard about this.
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> Stuart LaForge
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> > https://www.llnl.gov/news/national-ignition-facility-achieves-fusion-ignition
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> > National Ignition Facility achieves fusion ignition
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