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My point was purely about the claimed impossibility of a hundredfold efficiency increase which is only true if you are already about 1 % efficient. I have no re
by danbruc 4y ago
My point was purely about the claimed impossibility of a hundredfold efficiency increase which is only true if you are already about 1 % efficient. I have no real opinion on what the NIF is doing or not, at best my layman judgment would be that laser fusion is way further from becoming practical than tokamaks or stellerators.
- tmikaeld 4y agoYou're right that we don't have enough information here, I've been reading a lot about it's theory and practicality throughout the years. There's also theories about ignition in parallell, by using multiple pellets. Since the first step has been taken, there's a lot of avenues for improvement. However, one also has to take into account the "chaos" created by the ignition in the first place, re-introducing an additional pellet or chain reaction has it's own challenges.