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Focused Energy buys two of the world’s most powerful lasers for its fusion quest
The massive lasers will be installed in the startup’s future facility, which it is building in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The current state-of-the-art inertial confinement system is at the U.S. government’s National Ignition Facility, which announced the net-positive breakthrough just over two years ago. “All of these sub-systems are technology demonstrators for the ultimate fusion pilot plant that we want to build,” said Doug Hammond, the company’s VP of laser engineering. The high number is required both to provide enough energy to spark ignition and to give each power plant enough reliability so that, if a laser should need to be repaired or replaced, the facility can continue operating.
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