Science and Technology – New Scientific Breakthrough: Physicists are one step closer to getting unlimited clean energy

For the second time in history, physicists managed to get more energy into an experimental thermonuclear reactor than was spent to start this reaction. This scientific discovery was another step, albeit a small one, towards obtaining unlimited clean energy, the same that is produced in the depths of the Sun, he writes. live science.

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Physicists at Livermore National Laboratory. Lawrence, USA, for the second time in history, achieved great success by initiating thermonuclear fusion in an experimental reactor. Scientists again received more energy than they spent to start a thermonuclear reaction.

By firing the world’s most powerful laser beam to turn hydrogen isotopes into flaming plasma for a very short time, physicists have gained more clean energy than they got during the first experiment in December 2022.

As part of the latest experiment, scientists converted deuterium and tritium into flaming plasma for a fraction of a second using a laser beam, and as a result, 3.15 megajoules of energy were released while 2.05 megajoules were spent to start a thermonuclear reaction. As already written to focus. According to scientists, they achieved better results, but all the details will be revealed later, after the results of the new experiment are published in scientific journals.

Physicists admit that neither the first nor the second experiment yielded more energy than was expended to run the entire fusion reactor. At the same time, the thermonuclear reaction itself lasted a very short time.

Thermonuclear fusion takes place in the cores of all stars, including our Sun, thanks to which they can live. When hydrogen atoms combine to form helium, unlimited pure energy is produced. If you build a thermonuclear reactor on Earth that can produce more energy than is required to operate it, the energy production will not generate greenhouse gases and radioactive waste.

But to create conditions for the launch of thermonuclear fusion, as in the core of the Sun, colossal temperatures and pressures are needed. And of course, you need a lot of energy to turn the original fuel into plasma, ignite it, and release energy.

Some physicists believe that creating an efficient fusion reactor could take decades. Thus, clean energy will not have time to save humanity from climate change, as I already wrote to focus.

However, such experiments, which American physicists intend to continue, prove that one day this unlimited clean energy will be able to provide all of humanity.

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