Annie Kritcher and her team at the US National Ignition Facility designed fusion experiments that generated more energy than they consumed. Annie Kritcher and her team at the US National Ignition Facility designed fusion experiments that generated more energy than they consumed.
LIVERMORE – In a stunning experiment last week, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s giant National Ignition Facility finally lived up to its name, igniting fusion fuel with precisely tailored laser pulses
Researchers zapped hydrogen fuel with lasers and generated more energy than the lasers put in. But a future with carbon-free fusion energy is still decades away.