Frickin' Lasers

[Lord Blackadder]

I was faffing around on the news sites and came across this article:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/7028036/lasers-could-create-clean-nuclear-energy/

If this works out, the potential of this technology has no bounds. Cheap, clean energy - a solution we have all been looking for.

Science - it's bloody amazing!

[nettybetty]

This is awesome of an epic kind!

It's time to sever the dependence on oil, and really we should've been doing it a long time ago, I think the big corporations would like to see it run until the last drop, as profits seem to matter far more than the planet. I just hope that all those conspiracies about 'alternative' energies being bought out and locked up aren't true...apparently the electric and hydrogen cars have been around a long time, but big oil companies didn't like them very much.

[kencooke]

Very exciting news indeed ... but turning theory into practice?

[two dogs]

I was faffing around on the news sites and came across this article:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/7028036/lasers-could-create-clean-nuclear-energy/

If this works out, the potential of this technology has no bounds. Cheap, clean energy - a solution we have all been looking for.

Science - it's bloody amazing!
Contained fusion is the "holy grail" of energy production, but after more than half a century of concerted effort, "fuck all" has resulted. I'd be excited if the article referred to some convincing demonstration of it's practability, but unfortunately it's just another computer model.
Julian

[Lord Blackadder]

The saddest thing about an article like this is that it would be buried on page 25 of the newspaper. Front pages are reserved for Lara Bingle's latest fuck-up or a football team's win.

The priorities of the main stream media are skew-whiff...

[Bradley]

I was faffing around on the news sites and came across this article:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/7028036/lasers-could-create-clean-nuclear-energy/

If this works out, the potential of this technology has no bounds. Cheap, clean energy - a solution we have all been looking for.

Science - it's bloody amazing!
That is bloody amazing; thanks for posting. Now if only they can attach the frickin' laser power station to the back of a shark, they'd really have something.

The saddest thing about an article like this is that it would be buried on page 25 of the newspaper. Front pages are reserved for Lara Bingle's latest fuck-up or a football team's win.

The priorities of the main stream media are skew-whiff...
So true.

[davros]

Interesting, but seems pretty far from realisation - its 'only 10 times more difficult than deuterium-tritium'; and DT inertial containment fusion is as far off as ever : (

[Sanity personified]

Personally I would like to know more of the atomic modelling. Just saying that it converts Hydrogen and Boron to Helium is like saying that a car converts Oil-derived petrolium to mechanical energy.

What is the ration of Hydrogen to Boron? I have a dozen other questions.

[Fromm_Nicht]

Just saying that it converts Hydrogen and Boron to Helium is like saying that a car converts Oil-derived petrolium to mechanical energy.

Not really, its more like saying that a car converts oil-derived petroleum to poisonous smog.

Though I would also like to know more of the details.

[Sanity personified]

Not really, its more like saying that a car converts oil-derived petroleum to poisonous smog.

Though I would also like to know more of the details.

Sorry for my hiccup in sanity. You are correct in your concise point, thank you. :)