From PC Mag: For the first time, a US lab has created a fusion reaction that produced more energy than it took to start the reaction.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy confirmed(Opens in a new window) the research breakthrough, which promises to help humanity end its reliance on fossil fuels and replace them with clean energy that replicates power from the Sun.
The breakthrough was achieved at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco. The same lab is home to a 10-story building called the National Ignition Facility(Opens in a new window), which is about the size of three football fields and contains 192 lasers designed to achieve a fusion reaction. The technology does this by bombarding a pellet of hydrogen isotopes at extremely high temperatures to cause them to fuse, releasing energy.
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