Nuclear fusion breaks through
Unexplainable
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How Do These Lasers Really Do Fusion?
The tiny fuel pellet is about the size of a peppercorn, and they zap it with these extremely powerful lasers. What you're trying to do is take a fuel capsule that started about two millimeters in diameter and squeeze it down to about half the diameter of a human hair. These are also very tiny particles like imagine trying to aim two billiard balls at each other, but they're sub microscopic.
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