{"id":31127,"date":"2023-12-22T17:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=31127"},"modified":"2023-12-22T17:42:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T22:42:27","slug":"with-200-lasers-and-a-peppercorn-sized-fuel-capsule-scientists-inch-closer-to-mastering-fusion-energy-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=31127","title":{"rendered":"With 200 lasers and a peppercorn-sized fuel capsule, scientists inch closer to mastering fusion energy | CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/221212125536-02-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-file.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Scientists in California make a significant step in what could one day be an important solution to the global climate crisis, driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/20\/climate\/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough-replicate-climate\/index.html\">With 200 lasers and a peppercorn-sized fuel capsule, scientists inch closer to mastering fusion energy | CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>i think this is good but a tad misleading.  there is still a hell of a lot of energy used to make this happen; the 2MJ input and 3.8 MJ output is not a full accounting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;On July 30, the NIF laser delivered a little over 2 megajoules to the target, which resulted in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lasers.llnl.gov\/content\/assets\/docs\/news\/age_of_ignition_book.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">3.88 megajoules of energy<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 their highest yield achieved to date, according to the report. Two subsequent experiments in October also delivered net gains.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>also, ffs, the LLNL&#8217;s book <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lasers.llnl.gov\/content\/assets\/docs\/news\/age_of_ignition_book.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Age of Ignition<\/a> is almost uinreadable.  possibly due to being too advanced (initial opook seems to be Scientific American level, but also ~100 pages, so a bit of read); but unreadsable due to formatting horizontally.  brilliant scientists, amazing technical achievments, but can&#8217;t be read about by simple pdf fiel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so i wanted to read more o nthe fusion stuff; llnl has a book &#8220;the age of ignition&#8221;, which i think explains thing in an accessible to me at least way; but the read ing experience on my screen is terrible due to how the pdf is laid oput horizontally. in irder to read compiurtable i must zoom up too much, so that now I have to do a lot of scrolling arond; no better on tablet, susupect no better on phone; especiually annyonbing have to zoom in and out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in California make a significant step in what could one day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[25,382,266,140],"class_list":["post-31127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-energy","tag-fusion","tag-maybe-good","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31132,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31127\/revisions\/31132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}