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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16808399" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>The writer of the article didn't study the topic very well. Ignition has been achieved numerous times in the lab via several means. Tokamaks, z-pinch, laser inertial confinement, etc. Every time a hydrogen bomb goes off, ignition has occurred.</p><p></p><p>What has not happened, and what the article makes no mention of, is the gain of the reaction. Did you get more energy out of it than you had to put into it to get it to fuse? In theory, to practical for power generation we need a gain of 10. The theoretical max is around 10,000. So far, we still have to use more power to create fusion than we get out of it. We haven't even hit break-even. Break-even will be significant, but even that is no good for power production.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16808399, member: 67454"] The writer of the article didn't study the topic very well. Ignition has been achieved numerous times in the lab via several means. Tokamaks, z-pinch, laser inertial confinement, etc. Every time a hydrogen bomb goes off, ignition has occurred. What has not happened, and what the article makes no mention of, is the gain of the reaction. Did you get more energy out of it than you had to put into it to get it to fuse? In theory, to practical for power generation we need a gain of 10. The theoretical max is around 10,000. So far, we still have to use more power to create fusion than we get out of it. We haven't even hit break-even. Break-even will be significant, but even that is no good for power production. [/QUOTE]
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