Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
Breakthrough on the fusion energy front:

Fusion Breakeven Surpassed

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore lab in California ran a fusion experiment that used 2 megajoules of laser energy to ignite and got 3 megajoules out. That far exceeds breakeven.

It's coming!
I wrote about this on SU 12/11/22 on the Science thread, but it's not showing up in the Current Topics in the left-side column. So I wrote about the thread not showing up on the Tell It To The Editiors, and now Tell It To The Editors is not showing-up in the left-side column.

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