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Because they are researching inertial confinement fusion, not trying to build a working power plant. The efficiency of the lasers doesn't matter, since it doesn

Because they are researching inertial confinement fusion, not trying to build a working power plant. The efficiency of the lasers doesn't matter, since it doesn't affect their research.

Aeolun 4y ago
Is energy on the order of 300MJ so cheap? You’d think that cutting it down to 150MJ would allow them to do more experiments.
- nrki 4y ago
  300MJ ~= 83kWh which is like, $2000 in CA
  - IanCal 4y ago
    I think you're out by some orders of magnitude. With the current energy issues in the UK it'd be under £100. Other things suggest in California it's more like 20 cents per kWh so were you thinking ~$20?
    - nrki 4y ago
      You're right of course, messing up my units again.
- kragen 4y ago
  300 megajoules is 83 kilowatt hours a typical power price at trading hubs is US$40 per megawatt hour, though this varies considerably depending on many factors and is sometimes actually negative a typical retail price is US$120 per megawatt hour so this is about US$10 worth of electrical energy