It’s Getting Hot In Here

The interior of the sun is around 15 million degrees fahrenheit.  In Albuquerque, NM, scientists at Sandia Labs have managed to hit temperatures exceeding 3 billion degrees fahrenheit with the Z machine (a powerful X-ray generator).  What came as a surprise is that the sudden increase in temperature was achieved after it’s energy had seemingly been depleted and that the sudden burst of energy seemed to be coming from some unknown source.

Sandia National Laboratories

Along with news that CERN is going to be(if they haven’t already) producing black holes within their labs, it seems to me that we may be on the verge of a new era of science. The machines used to produce the results above were in facilities that were about as large as a high school gymnasium! Imagine what the world would be like if our next form of efficient energy were safer than a nuclear reactor and several times smaller.