Jul 18, 2019
On this week's edition of TT, we take a brief break from
the fusion series to look at two recent news stories about giant
tech companies expanding their markets: both into healthcare, and
into providing internet via satellites.
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Jul 11, 2019
The National Ignition Facility poured the heart and soul of the
first few years of their work into achieving ignition - a plasma
that would heat itself by thermonuclear reactions by as much as it
was heated externally.
Ultimately, it was close, but no cigar.
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Jul 4, 2019
The National Ignition Facility is, to date, the largest inertial
confinement fusion experiment ever developed - and carried with it
a huge amount of hope and hype that breakeven might be reached with
this new device.
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Jun 27, 2019
Inertial confinement fusion has a secret weapon - after all,
it's just a scaled-down hydrogen bomb, which gives us hope that it
might not be too difficult to fuse fuel under these conditions.
This was supposedly confirmed by underground nuclear tests called
Halite and Centurion... but all the details are classified.