The Emperor Will Be Displeased
Future Giant Laser Threatened by Cuts
The device, which would focus 192 lasers at a single point to create a huge release of energy, is nearing completion at the Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons lab in Northern California.
Talk about life imitating Star Wars.
But a spending plan for energy and water projects approved Thursday by the Senate Appropriations Committee would shut off further construction money for the project, leaving it with just the four laser beams now in place.
"How am I going to blow up Alderaan with four measly laser beams!"
The project is now scheduled for completion in 2009. Supporters said it's as good as dead because without more lasers it cannot reach fusion ignition — the hoped-for energy release.
"The whole point is to achieve ignition. That's why it's called a National Ignition Facility," said Lawrence Livermore spokesman Bob Hirschfeld.
"The whole point is to achieve ignition. That's why it's called a National Ignition Facility," said Lawrence Livermore spokesman Bob Hirschfeld.
You'd think if they'd already spent $2.8 billion on it and are about to see the fruits of completion that they'd cough up the remaining change to finish the project.
Now if we had a mobile space station to mount it on...
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