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Post by firecracker on Feb 15, 2014 20:59:50 GMT -5
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory have used lasers to create fusion.
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Post by firecracker on Feb 15, 2014 21:02:37 GMT -5
The laser is known as the National Ignition Facility, or NIF. Constructed at a cost of more than $3 billion, it consists of 192 beams that take up the length of three football fields. For a brief moment, the beams can focus 500 trillion watts of power — more power than is being used in that same time across the entire United States — onto a target about the width of a No. 2 pencil.
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