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Crumbs. The image of what they’re doing is striking - it’s essentially the second (fusion) stage of a nuclear weapon, except they’re using lasers to create the x-ray flux that compresses the deuterium-tritium fuel, instead of a traditional primary (plutonium implosion). Never mind clean energy, this might have the potential to create a nuclear weapon that doesn't produce nuclear fallout.
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rodan
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Given the amount of energy required to compress the deuterium-tritium and initiate the reaction.
I think weaponising it would present some interesting challenges of packaging and deployment. -
Park life.
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Stick it on one of the Boston Dynamics dogs and you've got a weapon folks'll happily let dance into their city... like a Trojan robot death machine.
Grumpy_Git
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https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589dc7
So only 3o years away....