Re: Energy projects was Underwater mortgages and the economy

Richard Baker <[email protected]>
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Dan said:

>  In typical everyday usage, lasers are not very efficient.  Even in high tech uses, such as inertia fusion, particle beams are much more efficient: about 12% vs. about 1%, back when inertia fusion was big back in the '80s.

High pulse energy, high repetition rate diode-pumped solid state lasers now have an efficiency of around 10%.

Rich
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