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[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 31 points 4 months ago

Holy shit they say it is. Not, like, sustainable commercial levels, but damn

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It hit a q value of 1.53 which means they got 50% more energy out. Their goal for commercial realization is a q value of 10, which they say will happen by 2030. This is Chinese for earlier than that because they love to set a far off date and achieve it earlier. They said the facility for that will be finished in 2027 so that's when I'd expect the real timeline to start.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No clue why you're giving the 1.53 Q value the NIF achieved in 2022 to this reactor which is only reporting that it succesfully turned on, with no mention of energy input vs output, but sure ok.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

Nope, they do not say its energy positive (Q>1) anywhere.

They say it was ignited.

That means it successfully ignited, contained and maintained a plasma field for... some amount of time.

That is of course a huge accomplishment, but there is no mention of input vs output energy.

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