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International Energy Agency Lawrence Livermore's laser, which is based on now outdated technology, is the size of three football fields and has the capacity to produce 500 trillion watts of energy, said Jean-Michel Di Nicola, chief engineer for the laser system. "For a very short amount of time – we are talking about only a few billionths of a second – it exceeds the entire U.S. power grid." The breakthrough is not the answer to climate change and doesn't mean work to shift to carbon-neutral energy production can stop. "The science and technology challenges on the path to fusion energy are daunting, but making the seemingly impossible possible is when we're at our very best," said Budil. After many scientific and engineering obstacles are overcome, the goal would be to create a power plant that used fusion to generate heat and electricity. When the pressure and heat were sufficient, the atoms combine, releasing more energy than had been put into the pr