Isn’t it always 30 years away? 😄 Long way off I reckon to scale it up and actually harness the heat energy. Often not mentioned is the 300 megajoules that was needed to ready the lasers before firing them (this is not included in the 1 in —> 1.5 out energy equation). Fascinating stuff though and massive potential.
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Could the excess energy compensate for the initial laser warmup? I don’t know what the end product would look like but perhaps that extra energy can offset the initial process 🤷♂️ talking outa my butt here. I have a lot to catch up on.
Who knows 🤷🏻♂️ Certainly exciting. It’s always tricky to find detailed info on this cutting edge stuff unless you’re working on it directly or know people who are.
As long as input energy required doesn’t scale in a 1:1 relationship to the output, shouldn’t matter what that input is - I think.
Yep, have to “maintain the gain” otherwise it’s all futile. Lots of obstacles ahead to overcome. Biggest ones are how do they sustain the energy long enough to get or harness that excess energy and remove it from the system so it can actually be used? And the cost to run it all ultimately has to be priced competitively in order to make it a viable competitor to other energy sources.