National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse

An anonymous reader writes "The construction and test firing of the National Ignition Facility have been completed. NIF was designed as the first facility ever to achieve self-sustaining nuclear fusion and, in particular, to reach the point of ignition in which more energy is generated from the reaction than went into creating it. While the recent 192-beam pulse only produced 80 kilojoules worth of energy, all signs point to NIF being able to reach an order of magnitude higher (PDF) than that in the coming year."

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Re:I'll give you a hint

[drewvr6]

I think if you invade a country for natural resources, the price those resources and their derivatives should go down. It was working out much nicer when we bought the resources for fair market price and turned our heads to the massacres going on in said countries. At least the world didn't need to see the deaths happening. It was blissfully unaware.