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Good points, but you mean energy, and it’s several hundred times.


Yes, should have said energy. As for hundreds vs twenty, my understanding was that newer lasers than what NIF is using should be in the twenty times range, but you're right that at NIF they use hundreds of times more energy than they can deliver to the plasma.




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