World's highest-energy laser to create mini-stars

(Photo) In early April, the $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, was given the green light to begin a series of experiments. Researchers hope they will culminate in the first ever self-sustained, stable fusion reaction that will release many times more energy than the energy used to trigger the reaction. The stadium-sized facility will train 192 laser beams on tiny targets, producing pressures and temperatures that could illuminate the ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - May 28, 2010 - 2:59 PM PDT
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by Jon Mitchell - Jun. 2, 2010

This is a really amazing set of photos that illustrates how incredible this technology is on all scales. It doesn't do much to convey how close (or far) we are from succeeding in this research, but it does give a good idea of what the fusion process is like and how scientists are trying to achieve it.

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by Fabrice Florin - Jun. 2, 2010

Informative photo gallery about the massive laser fusion experiment under development at the Lawrence Livermore Lab in California. These six photos and their detailed captions provide a good overview of what researchers are building to trigger a stable fusion reaction. However, this brief photo-report only relies on a single source and doesn't provide much context about this new field of energy research. See link for a more in-depth report.

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by Glenn LaBauve - Jun. 2, 2010

The slideshow is a bit combersome, but worth the 6 clicks to read , the pictures are well captioned and really do explain the pictures.

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by Bill Hibbard - Jun. 17, 2010

This is an astonishing smoke and mirror view of an over-unity experiment...

Flip the switch and see lots of money disappear before everybody's eyes

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