re: Fusion announcement tomorrow

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I am perhaps a slow witted individual, but when CBS reported this on the evening news they said that this experimental fusion exercise occurred thru the use of lasers to generate the fusion. Pardon me if I am wrong, but does the lasers not require some form of energy input to be able to generate a beam? And the researcher said that if this was true that it could instantly replace all fossil fuels. I am sorry, but the last time I checked my 66 Cobra and 67 Mustang do not run on fusion reactors, but good old dinosaur squeezings. I think the jury is still out.

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The reason this was a breakthrough because the fusion released more energy than what they put into it. So the energy used by the lazers was less than what was released.

The guy who said it could instantly replace fossil fuels is naïve and is either saying that for funding or saying it because he's also a political nutjob with an agenda.

What it could do though is power the electric grid, trains, and other things to improve our life.

Vehicles will still need fossil fuels. But not having to use fossil fuels for electricity would still be massive. This type of energy by smooshing two hydrogen atoms together would only have byproducts of energy and helium.