Thursday, May 13, 2010
To Make a Star on Earth...
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are attempting to create a miniature star in order to fix solve the world's energy crisis. This star would be created after 192 individual laser beams are turned on simultaniously on the same point of matter- in this case deuterium and tritium. This would create a tiny star, which would be hotter than our sun, and by capturing this energy, which would be produced during the star's 2oo trillionths of a second lifespan, the team hopes to induce the era of nuclear fusion. However, this technology has a very high chance of failure, and it would take over 20 years to commercialize, which is too late in order to stop the climate change that this world is experiencing- after all, that's the scientists goal: to help the earth in its energy crisis in an environmentally friendly fashion. There are several other attempts at soving the world's energy crisis at this moment, such as the plasma generator in France, but it seems that all of these technologies will arrive too late to curve the global climate change, and will probably arrive after the oil supply fails to meet public demand. That could be a problem.
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