Big announcement from NIF claiming scientific breakeven...

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Big announcement from NIF claiming scientific breakeven...

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Link:https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/1 ... 213a/full/

NIF is claiming scientific breakeven. Breakthrough or scam? I think it's possibly quite important, but I'd like to hear more about their instrumentation (how did they calculate energy out, specifically? devil's in the details...). That most coverage talks about green energy from fusion is a red flag, as veteran members here know. What do y'all think?

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Re: Big announcement from NIF claiming scientific breakeven...

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There is absolutely no such scientific term called "Scientific Breakeven". They created that term so they can act as if they've performed a requirement that congressed required for spending over a billion and half dollars on the wrong laser and drive design system. Their real "Q", as I posted in the thread on fusion, is about 0.005.
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Re: Big announcement from NIF claiming scientific breakeven...

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Dennis,
I appreciate you adding numbers like this along with solid facts. I have been explaining what is really going on here to friends and coworkers all day, and you have given me some meat to use in my conversation.

Thanks,

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Re: Big announcement from NIF claiming scientific breakeven...

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There are three threads on this already. This thread is closed.

[try this thread: viewtopic.php?p=97708&hilit=NIF#p97708 ]
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Re: Big announcement from NIF claiming scientific breakeven...

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Looks like NIF got a bigger bang out of their miniature H-Bomb experiments:

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/07/nuclea ... scientists

Lemme know when it lasts longer than a nano-second.

Which is, after all, the definition of controlled nuclear fusion.

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