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#353 – Dennis Whyte: Nuclear Fusion and the Future of Energy
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Science Behind Inertial Fusion
The effect is like if you know the thing, so adiabatic cooling we're actually fairly familiar with. You want to keep the fuel cold and then just literally just ideally compress it. And then in something which is at the very center of that compressed sphere, because you've compressed it so rapidly the laws of physics basically require for it to increase in temperature. So this was very exciting because what they had done was it's clear that they propagated this, they got this what they call a hotspot. The science behind inertial fusion.
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