retroremakes
January 29th, 2010, 00:20
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/500x_6a00d8341bf7f753ef00e553e1a9f68833-800wi.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/6a00d8341bf7f753ef00e553e1a9f68833-800wi.jpg)The folks at the national Ignition Facility (http://gizmodo.com/tag/nationalignitionfacility/) decided to demonstrate fusion by focusing the energy of 192 super powerful lasers onto a tiny target. They certainly proved their concept by producing a one megajoule laser shot. Yeah, that's pretty powerful.
This demonstration is being proclaimed as a "key step towards nuclear fusion" by the National Nuclear Security Administration. After all, this is apparently the first time such a level of laser energy was reached. More experiments will occur in the summer of this year, but you can start with the pewpew jokes now. [Physorg (http://www.physorg.com/news183879299.html)]
Laser beam (http://gizmodo.com/tag/laserbeam/) pictured is not the 1 megajoule beam, instead it's a picture by Daily Galaxy (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/08/the-all-new-air.html)
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This demonstration is being proclaimed as a "key step towards nuclear fusion" by the National Nuclear Security Administration. After all, this is apparently the first time such a level of laser energy was reached. More experiments will occur in the summer of this year, but you can start with the pewpew jokes now. [Physorg (http://www.physorg.com/news183879299.html)]
Laser beam (http://gizmodo.com/tag/laserbeam/) pictured is not the 1 megajoule beam, instead it's a picture by Daily Galaxy (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/08/the-all-new-air.html)
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