Correct me if I'm wrong but they didn't really achieve OU because the target only got 10% of the incident energy so the actual energy gain was in a subsystem rather than in the whole system.
[m] On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:52 PM, David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com>wrote: > > As a skeptic I demand that another independent group of scientists >> replicate the results. How do we know that the input power required to >> run the lasers is accurately measured? The list of possible errors is a >> mile long for an experiment this complicated. >> > > The important point that I think we've missed is that the scientists > carrying out this research are *qualified* scientists. For this kind of > scientist, independent replication is not necessary, because they have > sufficient skill to carry out an experiment whose results one can trust. > > About the recent milestone, if I may be allowed to move the goalposts a > little: now the challenge is to get continuous OU operation, producing > enough energy to recuperate the investment in hardware and people operating > the system. > > Eric > >
