Japan fires world's most powerful laser to produce energy equal to 1,000 times the planet's power consumption! Researchers in Osaka were able to produce a 2-petawatt laser beam using a device known as the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiment (LFEX).
And, a really huge consideration for the any subsequent application of this capability is, ......almost unbelievable, in that while it produced a huge amount of power, the energy required for the beam itself is equivalent to that needed to power a microwave for two seconds. WOW! WOW! WOW!
Something like this could really be the beginning forerunner of some very major high-power laser-beam use capabilities, for all sorts of applications, from military to industrial!!
The article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3179045/The-Death-Star-weapon-Japan-just-fired-world-s-powerful-laser.html
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wonder how long before some idiot tries to blow up the sun with it.
Project Shiva Nova
Creating a Miniature Star on Earth
This was the data I posted way back at Project Avalon that got Henry Deacon so pissed at me and had me kicked off Avalon. I guess he didn't like it that I had the real hard facts of a project he was bragging about being involved in but was top secret :P
They grow their own crystals
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Photo Credit: National Ignition Facility (NIF)
This potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystal, weighing almost 800 pounds, was produced through a newly developed rapid-growth process that takes only two months, as opposed to two years using conventional methods. Each crystal is sliced into 40-centimeter-square crystal plates. More than 600 of these plates are needed for NIF.
These are the crystal lenses
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http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Lasers_Shiva_Nova.html
What is important is this... the DATES
Empowering Light - Historic Accomplishments in Laser Research
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In 1974, Livermore finished the one-beam, 10-joule Janus laser and used it to conduct the first fusion experiments at the Laboratory. It was used to demonstrate for the first time the thermonuclear reaction in laser-imploded deuterium–tritium fuel capsules. Starting in 1974, the two-beam Janus laser was used to gain a better understanding of laser–plasma physics and thermonuclear physics. It was also used to improve the LASNEX computer code, a hydrodynamics code developed in the 1970s for laser fusion predictions, which is still in use today.
The one-beam Cyclops was also completed in 1974. Its beamline was a prototype of the yet-to-be built Shiva laser.
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From 1973 to 1977, the Laboratory built four laser systems: (a) the one-beam Cyclops; (b) the one- and two-beam Janus system, which is still in use; (c) the two-beam Argus; and (d) the 20-beam Shiva. Each new laser provided more power and better control over the target-irradiation conditions as well as produced higher temperatures and greater compression and density in the deuterium–tritium fuel than its predecessor.
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The 20-beam Shiva became the world's most powerful laser in 1977, delivering 10.2 kilojoules of energy in less than a billionth of a second in its first full-power firing. In June 1979, Shiva compressed fusion fuel to a density of 50 to 100 times greater than its liquid density. Even more important, according to John Holzrichter, who was responsible for the laser and ICF programs at the time, Shiva proved once and for all that infrared laser light was too long a wavelength to reach fusion energy gain. Says Holzrichter, "The laser beam generates a dense plasma where it impinges on the target material. The laser light gives up its energy to the electrons in the plasma, which absorb the light. The rate at which that happens depends on the wavelength and the intensity. On Shiva, we were heating up electrons to incredible energies, but the targets were not performing well. We tried a lot of stuff to coax the electrons to transfer more of their energy to the target, with no success."
Quote from: Ellirium113 on July 30, 2015, 01:43:16 AM
wonder how long before some idiot tries to blow up the sun with it.
Or quickly turn the Earth into a bare brown rock?? We know some who would do it, given the chance!!