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U.S. Lab Working Hard To Make A Superstar

October 10th, 2010 link to (permalink)

No, we don’t mean ‘superstar’ in the celebrity sense of the ward. What the National ignition Facility has been laboring over since 1997 is the creation of a “miniature star of Earth”—think of our sun—contained in a chamber where its energy can be converted into power.

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