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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Laser-Based Inertial Containment
Laser-based inertial confinement is kind of a little bit of an underdog. It's 20 degrees above absolute zero because the deuterium-intratum are kept in a liquid and solid state. So what it does is that the lasers actually don't heat. What you want to do is get essentially a rocket going out like this. And then what happens is that the sphere so rapidly compresses the fuel, that what happening is that you're squeezing down on it.
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