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? where in the world have you seen anyone that is planning to try to use inertial confinement fusion for energy production?

• pfdietz 4y ago
  In the present tense, maybe not, but in the past this was a real thing (or, at least, people were pretending it was). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy
  • bananapub 4y ago
    > LIFE, short for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy, was a fusion energy effort run at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between 2008 and 2013. ie an American nuclear weapons laboratory was doing it
    • pfdietz 4y ago
      The game played with inertial fusion is that when the energy people are skeptical, say it's about weapons, and when the weapons people are skeptical, say it's about energy.