Fusion Energy Announcement Tomorrow.

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by Jeff H

I thought one article I read said they used lasers to surround it vs magnetic field. The temperature of the reaction is pretty extreme so figuring out how to harness that to make power/electricity and still be safe won't be easy or cheap. So does it mean once you turn on your car, you won't be able to turn it off?

The lasers were used to create the fusion process:

The breakthrough was made at 1:03 a.m. on Dec. 5 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility, 50 miles east of San Francisco. The work uses giant lasers to create heat and pressure like those found inside a star, enough to drive atoms together, releasing tremendous energy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sc...5dc6f96904ca9f

It sounds like they didn't contain the fusion process - just created it for a brief micro-second.

Three parts to Nuclear Fusion as an energy source: create fusion, then contain it so it sustains itself. And you will need fuel for the fusion reaction to feed on.