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National Ignition Facility: The most powerful laser on this planet

March 24th, 2009 link to (permalink)

Tim writes:Reading a BBC article yesterday about the resurrection of cold fusion, I ran into a mention of the National Ignition Facility — which, I discovered, is the most powerful laser system on earth. 12,700 tons of rebar! 500 trillion watts of photonic destruction.

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