Progress is happening fast, but the scope of the problem is immense.
At the same time, fusion power will not be contributing electricity to any power grid for at least a decade, according to most industry watchers. To get there, there will have to be many more technical breakthroughs beyond what was celebrated on Tuesday — and the money to fund them.in California executed a successful experiment to produce more energy from a nuclear fusion reaction than went into the lasers used to power the reaction., a program director at Lawrence Livermore, on Tuesday.
It took about 300 megajoules of energy from the electricity grid to fire the laser that was used in the experiment, said Herrmann on Tuesday. That's equivalent to what is included in about two and a half gallons of gasoline. 'This is a science achievement, not a practical one," Omar A. Hurricane, a chief scientist at Lawrence Livermore, told CNBC.
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