The failure to replicate the alleged ignition of a fusion target one year ago suggests that the event was an accident, in the sense that we still don’t understa

The failure to replicate the alleged ignition of a fusion target one year ago suggests that the event was an accident, in the sense that we still don’t understand how to create the conditions leading to ignition in an indirect-drive laser experiment. Even if we could predictably ignite such a target, that would be almost completely irrelevant for commercial power generation. The total system gain is still << 10%. Fusion is not an attractive or desirable approach: https://progressive.org/op-eds/let-cut-our-losses-on-fusion-energy-180313/ https://progressive.org/op-eds/let-cut-our-losses-on-fusion-...