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Breakthrough: 500 trillion watts of fusion energy

DateSunday, July 22, 2012 at 07:05PM

Scientists in California fired up 192 laser beams simultaneously onto a single, tiny, two-millimeter target, producing and unbelievable 500 trillion watts of energy. To put it into context, that’s about 1,000 times more power than the entire United States uses at any given time.

Learn more at Inhabit and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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