Physics Fusion Propaganda You Can Understand

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Deep greenwashed propaganda.

Listen carefully to the bullshit.

"scientists for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than the energy used to start the process, resulting in a "net energy gain."

Not true. Or rather, not the way most people are reading this.

The deep con explained. (He has a few bits of physics wrong, but never mind, he got the key issue correct.)

Even stating the reality is filled with gush.

With historic explosion, a long sought fusion breakthrough

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If gain meant producing more output energy than input electricity, however, NIF fell far short.

Read that again. Isn't that what you assumed you were being told!?

The lasers supplied an input energy of 2.05 MJ and measured an output of 3.15 MJ, hence a net gain of 1.1 MJ. Sounds great, BUT those lasers are only about 1% efficient. WHAT? yeah, so the amount of electrical energy used by those lasers was about 200 MJ, that through the magic of fusion created about 3 MJ of output energy - and even that wasn't yet converted into electrical energy. MegaJoules are measured of thermal energy.

So, why the fanfare?

To divert attention away from genuine energy research, such as overunity devices. They must be getting close to release - apart from the usual impediments of greed and violence.

Also note that this fusion research is never meant to create electrical power!

But DOE has never funded a program to develop inertial fusion for power generation.

Huh!? So who funded this research? Look back at the start of that big announcement; this is about "national security" and the primary aim of the research is to better simulate the physics of fusion weapons.

And that is how a physics con works. I like to call it a sleight-of-mind. Slow hand-clap, please.