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by eightails
1535 days ago
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And still lower than other laser systems using inertial confinement. If I'm reading NIF's recent paper right, they're claiming Q_a of above ~1.4, or Q = ~0.28 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8791836/ Edit: Wikipedia suggests that they were using a different method to calculate Q, only measuring the power input to plasma vs output from fusion, not including system losses. So that figure is probably not directly comparable. > the NIF used ~477 MJ of electrical energy to get ~1.8 MJ of energy into the target to create ~1.3 MJ of fusion energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility#Bur... |
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