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The secret force for limitless energy? Lasers

Tammy Ma · TED

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In 2022, physicist Tammy Ma and the team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a scientific breakthrough decades in the making: fusion ignition, or the combining of two atoms to generate more energy out of a reaction than was put in — recreating on Earth the same process that powers the Sun. She explains how they used a giant laser (way, way bigger than you're thinking) to catalyze this reaction and shares a vision for how this technology could change the world by creating limitless clean energy.

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Institution
TED
Department
TED2024
Speaker
Tammy Ma
Year
2024
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Engineering, Earth and environment
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TED
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