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m-in t1_j075dpf wrote

Lasers don’t directly induce fusion. They take some other “working fluid” like gold plasma and dump energy into it. That then can fuse something else that’s the actual nuclear energy source. Of course dumping a bunch of photons close to the visible spectrum (UV and IR are not far at all) will not cause anything to fuse on its own - not even if the photons had unceasingly high energies AFAIK.

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