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The next steps in the story are, how easy is it to make this process more efficient? Is there something fundamental that is lessening the efficiency, or is it a
by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
The next steps in the story are, how easy is it to make this process more efficient? Is there something fundamental that is lessening the efficiency, or is it a matter of needing to buy part X or laser X or variant y to improve efficiency?
Most research achievements are wildly inefficient because efficiency is not really their goal, they're looking for proof of concept. Once the concept is proven, you step into a whole different ballgame when efficiency is the goal. (Hopefully, who knows.)
- rini17 4y agoThere's a reason for optimism as for the lasers' efficiency. But there are many other aspects that were only approached theoretically so far, such as how to get useful energy out of the reactor.