In a historic scientific breakthrough, scientists in California successfully produced a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, according to a source involved with the project.
The fusion project was conducted at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the US Department of Energy is expected to announce the breakthrough on Tuesday.
From CNN:
The result of the experiment is a massive step in a decadeslong quest to unleash an infinite source of clean energy that could help end dependence on fossil fuels. Researchers have for decades attempted to recreate nuclear fusion – replicating the fusion that powers the sun.
US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will make an announcement Tuesday on a “major scientific breakthrough,” the department announced Sunday. The breakthrough was first reported by the Financial Times.
Nuclear fusion happens when two or more atoms are fused into one larger one, a process that generates a massive amount of energy as heat.
Scientists across the globe have been inching toward the breakthrough; in February, UK scientists announced they had more than doubled the previous record for generating and sustaining nuclear fusion.
It’s unclear how long the fusion process was sustained in this project.
Scientists working near Oxford in February were able to generate fusion for 5 seconds that produced 59 megajoules of energy — enough to boil about 60 kettles of water.
Our Sun is the product of nuclear fusion: the massive sphere of hot plasma is generated by the fusion of hydrogen and helium atoms, resulting in near-inexhaustible energy output.
Despite the massive energy implications of this project, obstacles still remain to create a fully sustainable energy system, since storing the energy produced in this process has yet to be realized.
And this promising development will only encourage globalist organizations like the World Economic Forum to push deindustrialization and phasing out of fossil fuels despite alternative energy systems like solar and wind falling far short of replacing the current energy gird.
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