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“Ignition” in this sense is interesting physics. But it has absolutely nothing to do with power generation.



Half a dozen commercial laser fusion projects disagree with you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/science/laser-fusion-ener...


Those companies are good at one thing: extracting money from VCs who are bad at math.


The article mentions that the National Academy of Sciences also disagrees with you. Here is their report.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18289/chapter/1#xv


I’d love to be wrong about this, but I don’t think I am.


Well there's something to be said for confidence I guess.




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