The possible solution to all our energy problems. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63950962
Amazing, but they could have saved a lot of time and effort if they had just harnessed the power of The Glow instead. The whole world would be powered.
I think it used more energy than it produced was something to do with the fact they had to power up a laser for a one off experiment. I believe that the idea that it gave off more energy than it used was based on the fact that once the laser is powered up it can repeat the process many times using far less energy. Anyway I am sure someone who is much more intelligent than me knows more about it.
Apparently it's decades away from being something we can use. Decades, and that's from the scientists themselves.
At least we know we know we don’t need to save money for the kids now. We can just go ahead and blow all our money on beer and football.
It's a funding drive, "look what we've been able to do, ignore the man behind the curtain and give us more money".
75 years of research and all that cost trying to reproduce the way the sun creates energy might have been better spent actually improving the way we harness the actual sun's energy to provide our needs.
Just listening to a seminar at the moment where they have said that this breakthrough is 40years too late. We now have the technology to produce low carbon energy (solar, wind etc) and we are scaling it up dramatically.
Earth: "There's too many humans. Must be SOME way to get rid of a lot of them?" Humans: "Hold my beer."
You're thinking of fission - that's the one where you need the really dense elements to get the reaction going.
