Record-Breaking Laser Hits 500 Trillion Watts

The reason why fusion has not taken off is simply because they can't generate power that is appreciably greater than that used. They may need to generate like TWICE as much just to really break even. This is why "cold fusion" is really sought after, etc.... Almost ANY power would help. If they could get it to say 212F, they would start to have a replacement for fission. Of course, I think it would have to have more fuel, etc... But it could be safer.

Rather than trying to create a larger conversion of electricity to another energy, to have a cute worthless experiment, they should strive to make the technology work with less power, so they have a viable energy source. Isn't THAT the goal? If they can't do that, they should GIVE UP!

INTERESTING that TESLA should be brought up! By making a more efficient generator(EXISTING TECHNOLOGY AND FEASIBLE), you could recover energy(ACTUALLY DONE ALL OVER), and you could use tesla coils to transmit it. YEAH, it is crazy, but people have tried to do such things for over 100 years, and have gotten it to work better than fission. IMAGINE the milestones that could be made in a few years? CARS would FAIL without bits of this technology, and a 100% improvement would make dead batteries practically NON EXISTENT! A slight achievement in the tesla technology could practically eradicate batteries all together. On a larger scale, maybe power power plants. How about running cars on 100% electricity? A car going down hill could power several going uphill, etc....

MOST have given up on such technology. It doesn't generate enough power, and various losses even hurt the chance of breaking even. Electric cars ARE pushing it along a bit though.

Steve

My understanding was that that was the tesla coil.

Well, he DID transmit energy. ANYWAY, that is what I was talking about. The other piece was created by Michael Faraday. The story is that he was doing some experiments with magnetism one day, and dropped a magnet near a coil with a meter attached. The meter jumped, and he started codifying HOW it worked. His work, though ancient and little improved, is needed more today than ever. It is used in phones, cars, computers, and nearly anything electronic. I had an idea DECADES ago, and have spoken with others that had the same idea, and we never saw it come true because things are too inefficient. It will likely NEVER be perfected, but it can come CLOSE! If we could generate power from almost every mechanical action in vehicles, and transmit and receive it accordingly, IMAGINE! Virtual PERPETUAL power! It's less of a pipedream than the massive trigger solar furnace hot fusion.

Steve