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[Anonymous No.15052969]

So let me get this "fusion breakthrough" straight...
>the lasers used to ignite the fuel consumed 500 MJ of energy to produce a 1.8 MJ laser beam which only produced 2.5 MJ of energy
So the energy output is still only 0.5% of the input... OH NO NO NO FUSIONCELS SAY IT AINT SO??? This is the big breakthrough???

[Anonymous No.15052981]

>>15052969
>pengon

[Anonymous No.15052984]

>>15052969
All nuclear energy is fake.
>Wait, it's all coal?
>Always has been

[Anonymous No.15052989]

>>15052984
>china
They will make progress when they finally succeed at stealing our progress.

[Anonymous No.15052991]

>>15052989
Here's Niggerkneelia.

[Anonymous No.15052993]

>>15052969
>This is the big breakthrough???
Unironically yeah; however, Fusionlets need to get more funding, so they hype this up as if fusion is right around the corner.

[Aether king of sci No.15052997]

>>15052981
>pengon

[Anonymous No.15053009]

>>15052997
>paingone

[Anonymous No.15053010]

>>15052984
well of course it's all coal, it's China. all underdeveloped countries are coal, and you cant really tell them not to because all the developed countries got there through coal power

[Anonymous No.15053012]

>>15052991
>much larger portion is nuclear
Thanks for proving my point retard

[Anonymous No.15053018]

If they used lasers to make a laser beam to make the energy why didn't they just skip making the laser beam and just use the original lasers to make the energy?

[Anonymous No.15053026]

>>15053018
well they're trying to force the fuel pellet to collapse so that the fuel ignites, the pellet needs to be heated evenly on the outside so that its forced to collapse in on itself or the fuel wont ignite.

unless you mean why don't they just use lasers to make energy? thats because the lasers consume more energy than they produce, theyre not an energy source. fusion entails a release of energy so once you can get the fuel ignited under the proper conditions you can have a sustained reaction to eventually produce more energy t han consumed. the lasers are only used to ignite the fuel, so if they kept the fuel ignited somehow (im not sure why they couldn't) then they would eventually produce more energy than they used to generate the beam

[Anonymous No.15053085]

>>15053010
China is more developed than whatever shithole you're from

[Anonymous No.15053088]

>>15053012
Eclipsed by fossil fuels. Cope, faggot.

[sage No.15053096]

>pang-gone

[Anonymous No.15053106]

>>15053088
Point to a country that is better and I’ll concede

[Anonymous No.15053128]

>>15052969
>what is energy output over time vs. fixed initial energy input

OP is a butthurt subhuman who realizes the era in which he could exploit the white race through his dinosaur kikejuice is slowly over

[Anonymous No.15053130]

>>15052969
Yes, fusion is a fraud. Anyone who is familiar with the technology knows this.

[Anonymous No.15053164]

>>15053085
>China is more developed than whatever shithole you're from
Not outside of a couple big cities or unless you're a CCCP member its not

[Anonymous No.15054461]

>>15052969
ICF at NIF is more about weapons stockpile then it is about fusion energy. Nobody in fusion community is serious about making ICF commercial energy, anybody would tell you MCF is more credible. NIF is about producing fusion conditions to simulate weapons tests.

[Anonymous No.15055343]

>>15054461
this makes sense because thermonukes use ICF, but so the hype for them over achieving ignition is purely so they can improve their simulations for thermonukes?