Scientists in California make a significant step in what could one day be an important solution to the global climate crisis, driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.
i think this is good but a tad misleading. there is still a hell of a lot of energy used to make this happen; the 2MJ input and 3.8 MJ output is not a full accounting:
“On July 30, the NIF laser delivered a little over 2 megajoules to the target, which resulted in 3.88 megajoules of energy — their highest yield achieved to date, according to the report. Two subsequent experiments in October also delivered net gains.”
also, ffs, the LLNL’s book The Age of Ignition is almost uinreadable. possibly due to being too advanced (initial opook seems to be Scientific American level, but also ~100 pages, so a bit of read); but unreadsable due to formatting horizontally. brilliant scientists, amazing technical achievments, but can’t be read about by simple pdf fiel.
so i wanted to read more o nthe fusion stuff; llnl has a book “the age of ignition”, which i think explains thing in an accessible to me at least way; but the read ing experience on my screen is terrible due to how the pdf is laid oput horizontally. in irder to read compiurtable i must zoom up too much, so that now I have to do a lot of scrolling arond; no better on tablet, susupect no better on phone; especiually annyonbing have to zoom in and out.
