Actually, they considered only what entered the core of D+T. That is about 1/100 000 of the total that enters the whole machine for the shot.
2014-02-13 1:55 GMT-02:00 Mark Gibbs <mgi...@gibbs.com>: > 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 >> >> > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
