http://news.newenergytimes.net/2012/11/10/federal-fusion-project-goes-ballistic/
> The largest inertial confinement fusion research project in the U.S., the > optimistically named National Ignition Facility, in Livermore, Calif., failed > to ignite by its September goal. Although the federal government has spent > $3.5 billion since beginning the project in 1997, the facility did not > produce one Watt of excess heat. An error: "ignition" refers to excess power (fusion energy release) exceeding input power. It's pretty easy to get some fusion heat, putting on, what is it, 500 TW of uv laser peak power. Remarkably, thought, I couldn't easily find numbers for actual peak output power. Or energy. The whole concept of Ignition is shaky with the NIF. Supposedly ignition might mean that the released energy would sustain the reaction, but that seems impossible with the NIF concept. Instead it might be that it's being used simply to indicate power out exceeding double power in. Except that actual power in may be much higher. The take-home, though, is that NIF is far, far from practical power generation. Cold fusion long ago reached this relaxed definition of ignition. I'll venture a prediction, based on what I've been seeing, that we'll have practical power from cold fusion long before hot fusion. A corollary: the huge hot fusion programs will be shut down within a few years. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:47 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest the collisions > may be producing a new type of matter. > > http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/lead-proton-collisions-at-large-hadron-collider-yield-surprising-results-1127.html > > http://tinyurl.com/c8nbwzl > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks >
