Recently, it has been made public that a series of testing has been going on in order to attempt to create a laser powerful and strong enough in order to produce the energy of the sun. Located in California, the National Ignition Facility has already tested approximately 192 lasers. Their goal is to achieve a laser strong enough to heat a single pea sized capsule to at least 180 million degrees Fahrenheit. Once they have achieved this, they can then attempt to recreate a model of the sun to be useable by humans on Earth. This sun in turn would be able to produce limitless energy at a safe and environmental friendly means. The scientists came to this conclusion based off of Newton’s third law of reactions in hopes that the reaction would produce more then what is needed to start the reaction.
In order to do this however, they are relying on a nuclear reaction to occur once the atoms fuse together. This could, potentially blow California off from the United States of America. This seems like a potentially dangerous experiment, however there have occurred many other equally threatening experiments in the past, which have, threaten all of humanity. Although nothing major has been tested yet, the National Ignition Facility has announced that in 2010, they would attempt to focus 500 trillion watts of energy on a single pea sized capsule. Hopefully, the experiment will success and the capsule will be able to contain the amount of energy being produced by the reaction.
Sources:
http://www.livescience.com/space/090408-tw-laser-fusion.html
http://www.gearlog.com/2009/04/laser_to_recreate_suns_power_s.php
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