Like the plasma experiments, dynamic instability limits compression and fusion yield.
CooL !! Great pic ! Must have been a nice tour.
Is that you in the green shirt on the right side of center ?
Would love to see that place some time. Good movie background too of course.
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I'm the little guy on the left, back row.
It's about the world's biggest clean room, which is great for allergies.
Keeping in mind that those fusion researchers measure efficiency in terms of heat out of the device vs. heat into it. Without considering the energy used in the very inefficient supporting equipment. Overhaul efficiency so low as to be absurd. "Over unity" is newspeak.
BTW - it's "Every idiot can count to one"
It's a proof-of-principle machine, and mainly intended to let people work out how well nuclear bombs are going to work without having to go to the bother of testing an actual bomb.
Something seriously intended for net energy generation would look very different.
https://hb11.energy/ is actually aimed at that. Fusing hydrogen and boron doesn't release neutrons so it is a whole lot more practical. It needs much higher temperatures but Heinrich Hora has got a scheme that he thinks can be made to work - there's a very non-linear interaction involved. I haven't put any of my own money into it yet - the first stage got over-subscribed very quickly, and I hadn't looked at the web-site since they started raising more capital.
One milestone was to get more fusion energy out than light energy in. It took about 20 years to understand how to do that.
There are people who think that there is a real path to using lased induced fusion as a practical power source. It's a long shot but not impossible.
NIF is used for a lot of other experiments, with very different targets, so one may as well fire some fusion shots.
Pretty cool. Why are you all wearing masks? Here they abandoned them, the pandemic has subsided (and it is summer). Or is it to protect the site you are at?
They are required inside NIF, don't know why. They didn't require us to wear booties or walk on sticky pads to de-dust our shoes, like a semiconductor fab would.
Few people wear masks here in normal life. Maybe 5% are masked in public outdoors, maybe 20% at supermarkets, almost none in bars or restaurants.
I think some people will wear masks forever.
Well masks are not much help against infection unless everybody wears them but I can understand how people in desperation would wear - say someone on chemo, even if all the mask gives them is just a feeling of better safety. What might be an alternative last line of defence is what what I do, I put a "Fisherman's Friend"
try this instead ;)
Hah! Did not know that one - but I am not much of a drinker anyway. One of these bottles would last for years at my drinking rate, whereas I had to buy 240 packages of my "Fisherman's Friend" at amazon.de (so the transport charge would be acceptable) after they disappeared from Sofia.
Bah. Poor substitutes for dark chocolate.
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not a substitute, addition ...
do Victory Vs still exist?
Not sure what this is... I remember there was a brand of cigarettes named "Victory" - is it that? I don't smoke since 1992 so I have lost touch, don't even notice what other people smoke.
They're a type of lozenge, similar to Fisherman's Friend.
Yup. I recognized your mask right away.
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