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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    It wasn’t a fluke: Researchers at a Department of Energy lab have repeated their breakthrough fusion power experiment.

    On July 30, lasers once again converged on a tiny gold cylinder containing a diamond-coated, deuterium-tritium fuel pellet.

    That reportedly exceeds the amount of energy the lasers imparted on the hohlraum, as the cylinder is called, though it’s unclear by how much.

    The lab confirmed the successful repetition of the experiment and said it intends to report the details at either a scientific conference or in a peer-reviewed publication (likely both).

    The fact that scientists have achieved net-positive fusion power twice should hearten investors, who bet over $4 billion on the industry in 2021 and 2022.

    Perhaps most encouraging is the fact that the July 30 shot didn’t simply repeat the December results, it improved on them.


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