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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-11 11:01 AM
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Crushing a beer can with 12 million amps, Focus Fusion battles on to discover
Edited on Fri Apr-15-11 11:02 AM by HysteryDiagnosis
a path to clean sustainable energy.

http://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/article/magnetized_target_fusion/

“We crush the can in 24 microseconds with 12 million amps of current,” Wurden says. “The magnetic fields are held inside and go up by a factor of 100. There are no magnetic fields like that in our solar system, not even in this corner of the galaxy. The pressure inside equals a million atmospheres; the temperature goes up by a factor of 30 to 100.”
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