Artificial sun in California, USA (Daily Mail)
As reported by the Daily Mail, 15 November 2010, the building in question belonged to the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California, United States. The researchers are building a power plant or a combination of the first reactor in the world.
The project cost about 2.2 billion pounds or about Rp31 trillion. The results of this mega project is expected to be used in 2012. What tools are being created? Some call it an artificial star on earth, or perhaps more precisely a mini artificial sun to the earth.
Why is the sun? Because this tool can do a fusion reaction and menghasilan energy as the sun was in the stomach. Emit light from a laser beam source is installed. This is a mega construction of the world's largest laser. This project under the auspices of the United States Department of Energy.
Like solar energy will be supported by a series of laser beams in the world. The explosion energy is estimated to be equal or equivalent hydrogen bomb explosion in the belly of solar energy. Basic manufacture of this exceptional tool to meet energy needs in America.
To make this super tool, scientists involved need a room for three football fields. The facility is equipped with a laser transmitter 192. Each laser has a distance of 300 meters reliability within milliseconds. Temperatures could reach 100 million created degrees Celsius. These lasers have a target accuracy of a sniper target. In fact, the target of a pencil eraser on the end can be aimed precisely.
In total, 192 laser from equipment weighing 450 kilograms and reinforced concrete foundation that exceeds the force that has been claimed previously. This strength is about 60 to 70 times more powerful than the laser beam 60 from University of Rochester, New York. When the project is successful, then the U.S. dependence on foreign oil can be replaced. The facility is also to open the veil of secret nuclear fusion reactions, reactions that create deadly hydrogen bomb.
In the near future, the creators of this tool will carry out experiments with a mini sun lit it to trigger a thermonuclear reaction, nuclear reactions are triggered by temperature levels.
The final objective, this experiment can generate more energy than 100 million degrees centigrade and has a pressure of billions of times higher than what is on earth. Fuel, only for ordinary pins. If this is successful, then this becomes a nuclear fusion energy power stations with an unlimited energy source.
This technology is predicted to be a way out to meet energy needs worldwide. The plant produces no greenhouse gas emissions, operate without stopping, production of radioactive nor dangerous. Age, could be longer than the power plant has ever seen. "When this is done, this became the beginning of history and make America more free to determine the source of energy," said Ed Moss, Director of NIF.
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