Fusion efficiency boosted by exploding a tiny gold shell from the inside
By GCRU Gold News on Friday, April 21 2017, 01:50 - Permalink
The key to inertial confinement fusion is that the laser crushes a pellet of nuclear fuel, increasing the pressure and temperature to the point where fusion can occur. This works if you can get a set of laser beams that illuminate the pellet from all sides at once, delivering an even and clean crushing force.
But, what would happen if, instead of applying the force from the outside, the force was applied from the inside and directed outward?