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DennisP
on Dec 13, 2022
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Secretary Granholm to announce major scientific br...
Other people are already developing the lasers. We have NIF-class lasers now with over 20% efficiency, compared to the <1% efficiency of NIF's lasers. We also have petawatt lasers that can fire once per second.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.2.2021102...
ambicapter
on Dec 13, 2022
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Why isn't NIF using these lasers? Wouldn't bringing down the power requirements of their lasers have helped them get to "break-even" faster?
Robotbeat
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Because they have limited money.
DennisP
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And it's easy enough to figure out the overall ratio if they'd used newer lasers.
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