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Yet Another Method Of Achieving Nuclear Fusion
deglr6328 writes "Recent research has seen the use of the pyroelectric effect, the compression of bubbles using ultrasound and gas jet irradiation for producing nuclear fusion on small tabletop-scales. Yet another method can now be added to the list which uses ultraintense laser irradiation striking a borated plastic target to heat a plasma to billion kelvin temperatures and achieves aneutronic (clean) proton-boron fusion. (The PRL paper can be read online.) Though, like the other recently discovered exotic methods of attaining fusion, it does not look like a method which can be scaled up to ignition or even anywhere near break even, it still may have important use in the laboratory for the examination of such incredibly high temperature plasmas."
YAMOANF: Yet Another Method Of Achieving Nuclear Fusion
Or in short YANF: Yet Another Nuclear Fusion
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Mr. Kelvin would be dissapointed too because you post isn't the first. Mr. Celsius is already 273.15 posts ahead.
... am still waiting for my fusion powered flying car.
When I was reading I thought "Hey, where does the flux capacitor fit into this?"
Tell me more about this laser-irradiated Borat.
--Pat
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BTW, that Big Giant fusion reactor they're building in France to go on line in 2016? 2016! Don't hold your breath. First its Pork. Second it'll likley be dropped for cost overruns, ir. more Pork. And third, even if they managed to finish it, it is only Big Giant so ordinary folk will still lack the means to there own energy production.
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