LED legend Nakamura is now chasing nuclear fusion
The Nobel-winning co-inventor of blue diodes moved on to lasers a while ago. His latest endeavor wants to use them for solving the world’s energy crisis.
www.ledsmagazine.com
From what I have heard about him,
is the kind of guy that can get things done if they are possible.
from the blurb
"One of Blue Laser’s defining characteristics is that rather than fuse two isotopes of hydrogen known as deuterium and tritium, it will work with boron, according to the article. The story does not state whether Blue Laser will also use hydrogen
Perhaps BL's boron foray is similar to the LFEX laser powered HB11 efforts
"LFEX is a unique laser system capable of delivering more than 1.5 kilojoules of energy in 1 picosecond. The goal of this experiment is to studyThe goal of this experiment is to study the generation of proton beams using low density materials (or ‘foams’), which could be used as an efficient proton source for driving proton boron fusion reactions.
"https://hb11.energy/2024/02/09…g-osaka-university-japan/"
The work of Dr Hang Zhang shows that simply expecting "fusion", by blasting a metal-hydrogen complex with a blue laser, is maybe a little naive.