The future is here- Nuclear Fusion

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
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.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Prince Isak (GG)
Apparently it's decades away from being something we can use. Decades, and that's from the scientists themselves.
 
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.
It's a funding drive, "look what we've been able to do, ignore the man behind the curtain and give us more money".
 
  • Like
Reactions: Schlem Boogerman
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.
 
I’m pretty pissed off now
I was looking forward to driving my nuclear powered car before I die :cry:
 
There must be an easier way.
Can you not get nuclear fusion just by rubbing 2 Mackems together?
 
I’m pretty pissed off now
I was looking forward to driving my nuclear powered car before I die :cry:
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.