Laser fusion test results raise energy hopes

Along the way, the experiments smashed the record for the highest energy from a laser - by a factor of 20.

The goal, as its name implies, is to harness the power of the largest laser ever built to start “ignition” - effectively a carefully controlled thermonuclear explosion.

It is markedly different from current nuclear power, which operates through splitting atoms - fission - rather than squashing them together in fusion.

Proving that such a lab-based fusion reaction can release more energy than is required to start it - rising above the so-called breakeven point - could herald a new era in large-scale energy production.

Imagine if a kinist community could get its hands on one of these, or maybe just a nuclear plant - something to produce a large amount of cheap energy.

Not the most kinist of ideas since it requires such a large scale, but the idea is with scale it’d become cheaper - more labour / resources could be freed up for other pursuits.

One noteworthy strength that’ll hopefully be on kinists’ side is innovation. I suspect devout, hard working white kinists would be the best of any at an engineering project like this. A lot of brilliant Americans, especially males, don’t seem to reach their potential in the current society.

Exclusive ownership of such technology could too put a group, even a small group, in a unique position of self-sufficiency and diplomatic advantage perhaps (others wanting the technology). I don’t know much about this particular technology though - I don’t have training there.

There’s too much incompetence and decay around these days… It’s refreshing to see something working well and growing for a change, even if it’s a mere power plant.

This concept has some relationship to a concept already being circulated; the guy with the turtleneck sweater is still a source of good information.

JUST IN TIME WORK

Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, has a very good article in his magazine on the desktop manufacturing revolution.  It’s definitely worth the read and is complimentary with thinking being done on this blog re: resilient communities.  What was more interesting to me about the article, and perhaps to you, is the idea that this technology will help reshape work in new positive ways.  Here’s the claim:

  Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven by ability and need rather than affiliation and obligation. It doesn’t matter who the best people work for; if the project is interesting enough, the best people will find it.

Laurel

Well Tesla did a lot of work in this field (you could call him a pioneer of it) & frankly I would suggest that his electro-magnetic energy-receptor tech (Tesla Coil) are in use with some governments’ men-behind-the-scenes & the info is just waiting to burst on the scene to revolutionize the way we look at energy - and more importantly the utility companies