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Rekt.network 3 years ago

I love it, too.

I had nightride open for month and then the flickering crashed my Dell Monitor :joy:

I rebooted it via hard reset and opened nightride again, but I made sure to stop the flickering. :joy:

Yes, the fusion needs "huge" amounts of electrical energy input to happen, be it in the form of lasers like here or in the form of magnetic fields like in iter.

In this experiment 2.1 units of input energy produced 2.5 units of output energy. That energy has to be converted to electricity. Conversion looses like 40% of energy (escapes unsused) – so you have produced 1.5 units of electricity from 2.1 units of electricity input.

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Yeah, but you can't since the energy produced is in form of heat and radiation and not electricity.

That is like using lasers to start a fire and then saying: Look the fire is producing energy in the form of heat! But the heat has to be turned to electricity to power the lasers. And then the fire better produce enough heat to produce enough electricity to power the lasers...

Don't get your hopes up yet: This just demonstrated that the released energy (in form of heat etc) is higher than the energy input – yet the released energy hadn't been converted to electricity that could have powered the lasers.

Supposedly this would be done by a heat engine, with can normally extract 60% of energy input. So 2.5 * 0.6 = 1.5, so it is yet again not producing any surplus energy.