# The secret force for limitless energy? Lasers

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2024
- Speaker: Tammy Ma
- Year: 2024
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics, Engineering, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/tammy_ma_the_secret_force_for_limitless_energy_lasers)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [The secret force for limitless energy? Lasers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/tammy_ma_the_secret_force_for_limitless_energy_lasers/cc16b705c1c7), 14 min (TED's player)