31 December 2008

fusion

Recently reported by the Daily Telegraph (UK), the National Ignition Facility (NIF), part of the US government funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California has 192 lasers designed to create a fusion reaction.



In Europe, ITER (formerly for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, but the use of the name discontinued) is being built as another fusion experiment. China is a member of the consortium so their work on Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) will feed into ITER.

Hopefully NIF and ITER will not end up similar to Doc Ock's fusion experiment, in the Spiderman 2 film, which went amiss. Terribly.



Still, hopefully the results won't be like the Fleischmann and Pons experiments on cold fusion.

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Last day of 2008.

1 comment:

Jed Rothwell said...

You need to learn something about Fleischmann and Pons' results. They have been replicated thousands of times, in hundreds of major labs. See:

http://lenr-canr.org