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by hobscoop 1885 days ago
I don't understand the promise of lattice confinement fusion. While it is certain believable that they measured fusion events, the explanation they give involves several unlikely steps of one particle hitting another. Since each step is unlikely, the overall gain of the process is extremely low, like 10^(-6). It's not obvious how the gain might be improved to something technologically useful (over 1).