pips@lemmy.film to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoUS scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reactionwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.orgscience@beehaw.orgscience@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@kbin.socialtechnology@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareexscape@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoThe key words are “delivered to the target”. They use WAY, way more power than they deliver to the target, so if you take the energy generated divided by the total energy used, the number is WAY, way below 1. Probably a fair bit below 0.1 too.
The key words are “delivered to the target”. They use WAY, way more power than they deliver to the target, so if you take the energy generated divided by the total energy used, the number is WAY, way below 1. Probably a fair bit below 0.1 too.