This is the facility that hit net positive fusion energy today

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yixhyPN0r3g

This breakthrough isn't even on /r/science. Reddit should be drooling over this The Science achievement.

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They got "fusion" to work for < a microsecond?

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Here's the right video, but it's not as useful:

13 years later and billions (trillions?) invested, and they got some stuff to fuse, which got them a net return on energy for an unspecificied amount of time:

LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of fusion energy output, demonstrating for the first time a most fundamental science basis for inertial fusion energy (IFE).

https://www.llnl.gov/news/national-ignition-facility-achieves-fusion-ignition

Cool, but it sounds like a waste.

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>net energy gain

>except for the power to the lasers

SMH

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That's the new success. Essentially the fusion version of the Trinity test.

"It is possible to do" is the message.

50 more years of engineering to make it useful.

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Given how brief it was, maybe it's all just a measurement error.

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Dunno, they've been gooning over this for over a week before releasing it

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