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It’s really stretching things to say it produced more energy than went into the reaction. Energy in:energy out is a ratio of the amount of energy that goes in,
by olliej 4y ago
It’s really stretching things to say it produced more energy than went into the reaction.
Energy in:energy out is a ratio of the amount of energy that goes in, not the portion of the energy that eventually hits the target. It’s like measuring car engine efficiency by measuring how much of the energy reaching the wheels translates into motion - and ignoring the massive losses that lead up to that point.
- dotancohen 4y agoUsing your analogy, this experiment was to see if more energy could be imparted as motion then was put into the tires from the engine, due to a mechanism of physics of the tires that would release energy. Many people doubted our ability to exploit this mechanism of physics. Now that our ability to exploit this mechanism of physics has been demonstrated, development of power sources that exploit this mechanism can begin to receive funding.