It looks like nuclear fusion is no longer just for precocious teenagers. Among the flurry of experiments going down worldwide, significant work will start rolling at the US National Ignition Facility sometime this June. Under construction for twelve years, the lab will focus 192 giant laser beams on two forms of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium. Combining these isotopes at high temperatures generates a colossal amount of energy, recreating conditions "at the heart of the sun." The goal is to find a way to achieve controlled, sustained nuclear fusion and energy gain in a lab. According to the director of the facility, Dr. Ed Moses, "When all NIF lasers are fired at full energy, they will deliver 1.8 megajoules of ultraviolet energy to the target." Lasting just a few nanoseconds, the system is capable of generation 500 trillion watts of power -- more than the peak electrical generating power of the entire United States. Significant results are expected sometime between 2010 and 2012.

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It looks like nuclear fusion is no longer just for precocious teenagers. Among the flurry of experiments going down worldwide, significant work will start rolling at the US National Ignition Facility sometime this June. Under construction for twelve years, the lab will focus 192 giant laser beams on two forms of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium. Combining these isotopes at high temperatures generates a colossal amount of energy, recreating conditions "at the heart of the sun." The goal is to find a way to achieve controlled, sustained nuclear fusion and energy gain in a lab. According to the director of the facility, Dr. Ed Moses, "When all NIF lasers are fired at full energy, they will deliver 1.8 megajoules of ultraviolet energy to the target." Lasting just a few nanoseconds, the system is capable of generation 500 trillion watts of power -- more than the peak electrical generating power of the entire United States. Significant results are expected sometime between 2010 and 2012.

Continue reading NIF scientists set the controls for nuclear fusion

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NIF scientists set the controls for nuclear fusion originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Readers, you may have seen that I was infected with a virus this weekend. It is better now, but to say that is misleading because it was never bad so there is no better state.

You see the virus was actually quite beneficial. I did not need to worry about what it wanted because as it turned out what it wanted was the same as what I wanted. So as you can imagine, it was easiest to just allow it to retain control.

The irony of the situation is that the popups the virus created were used to sell adware software, which I dutifully purchased and paid for. But I will not install it, because to install adware software would be to say that I wanted to get rid of said adware, or malware, or spyware, or any other type of ware that I would be fortunate enough to luck upon in my internet related travels.

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	Skype for iPhone now live in US It's finally here, and even a few minutes early. Skype for iPhone is now available in the US iTunes store, free of charge.		Microsoft announces Windows Marketplace partners, tweaked policies, designer WinMo 6.5 themes Details are starting to come into focus on some of the finer points of Windows Mobile 6.5's launch later this year, and if you had to boil the news down to just two words, they'd be "pretty" and "support."
	Dell Studio XPS 13 unboxing and hands-on We finally managed to wrestle one of the sleek Studio XPSs from Dell's mitts, and we've got the pics to prove it.	Other news of import Sony PlayStation 2 just $99.99 starting tomorrow Samsung HZ15W and hands-on, with friends Ericsson's F3607gw wake-on wireless HSPA module offers remote kill switch and recovery for laptops
	Samsung's latest LED-packing HDTVs get official prices, availability Finally, we can stop playing hide and seek with Samsung's 2009 lineup of edge lit LED HDTVs, now that its loosed official pricing and availability details for screens hitting shelves between now and June.		Samsung shows off Sprint's Instinct S30 (alias Instinct Mini) No details are being offered just yet, but Samsung's Korean-language press service has slipped the first official shot of its Instinct S30 / Instinct Mini / M810 for Sprint.
Xbox 360 TV Calibration app pops up on Community Games Samsung rolls out the AS730 HTIB system		iPhone 3.0 beta 2 released, push notifications are a go Is Google pulling tethering apps from the Android Market? Sanyo's QWERTY-packin' SCP-2700 lands on Sprint

The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

	Skype for iPhone now live in US It's finally here, and even a few minutes early. Skype for iPhone is now available in the US iTunes store, free of charge.		Microsoft announces Windows Marketplace partners, tweaked policies, designer WinMo 6.5 themes Details are starting to come into focus on some of the finer points of Windows Mobile 6.5's launch later this year, and if you had to boil the news down to just two words, they'd be "pretty" and "support."
	Dell Studio XPS 13 unboxing and hands-on We finally managed to wrestle one of the sleek Studio XPSs from Dell's mitts, and we've got the pics to prove it.	Other news of import Sony PlayStation 2 just $99.99 starting tomorrow Samsung HZ15W and hands-on, with friends Ericsson's F3607gw wake-on wireless HSPA module offers remote kill switch and recovery for laptops
	Samsung's latest LED-packing HDTVs get official prices, availability Finally, we can stop playing hide and seek with Samsung's 2009 lineup of edge lit LED HDTVs, now that its loosed official pricing and availability details for screens hitting shelves between now and June.		Samsung shows off Sprint's Instinct S30 (alias Instinct Mini) No details are being offered just yet, but Samsung's Korean-language press service has slipped the first official shot of its Instinct S30 / Instinct Mini / M810 for Sprint.
Xbox 360 TV Calibration app pops up on Community Games Samsung rolls out the AS730 HTIB system		iPhone 3.0 beta 2 released, push notifications are a go Is Google pulling tethering apps from the Android Market? Sanyo's QWERTY-packin' SCP-2700 lands on Sprint

The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Hey you jailkeepers, you know how the inmates been asking about keeping harmless little pigeons around? Well, it's a con: They're using them to smuggle in cellphones.

The AP reports that at the Danilio Pinheiro prison in Sorocaba, Brazil, inmates were raising pigeons, having them smuggled out, strapped with packs on their legs containing cellphone parts and, in one instance, an entire cell charger. The pigeons' weakness? Food. Guards were able to lure them down from the high fences, and foil the dastardly schemes of the as-yet-unknown culprits.

It's a funny story, but it's not super hilarious when you learn that the cellphones are smuggled into prisons so that the imprisoned gang leaders can carry out horrific attacks on police and public transportation, as Sao Paolo's First Capital Command gang did in 2006, killing over 200 people.

So if you see a pigeon chilling on the prison wall, shoot first, and then frisk it for cell parts. [SF Gate/AP]