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[quote]”Creating a miniature star on Earth” is the goal of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), home to the world’s largest and highest-energy laser in Livermore, California. On September 29th, 2010, the NIF completed its first integrated ignition experiment, where it focused its 192 lasers on a small cylinder housing a tiny frozen capsule containing hydrogen fuel, briefly bombarding it with 1 megajoule of laser energy. The experiment was the latest in a series of tests leading to a hoped-for “ignition”, where the nuclei of the atoms of the fuel inside the target capsule are made to fuse together releasing tremendous energy – potentially more energy than was put in to start the initial reaction, becoming a valuable power source. The NIF has cost over $3.5 billion since 1997 and is a part of the federally funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Scientists at NIF say they hope to achieve fusion by 2012. [/quote]
Ci son passato davanti qualche volta, sembra un fabbrica qualsiasi, invece è un grandioso giocattolo per Nerd: 192 cannoni laser puntati per spaccare in quattro un capello.
Foto pazzesche da [url=http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/the_national_ignition_facility.html]The Big Picture[/url].
