"NIF is by far the biggest hammer in the world right now, " states Peter J.
And now these backyard innovations are being given a chance to access international markets thorough the government's National Innovation Foundation (NIF).
Even if NIF's lasers achieve burn, they will be extraordinarily inefficient, producing only 1% of the energy needed to fire the lasers.
The project has been drawn up to capitalise on another project at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
If NIF succeeds, it will be a transcendent moment for science.
"Our conditions are ten times the temperature and ten times the density of the sun, and we're getting there in billionths of a second, " says John Lindl, NIF's chief scientist.
As part out coverage on innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia this week, the BBC's Shilpa Kannan travelled to the state of Haryana to visit a farmer who has benefited from the NIF's efforts.
With a bow to Einstein's famous law, the lost mass is transformed into energy, mostly in the form of a torrent of energetic neutrons (NIF's tiny reaction produces 10 quintillion--10 with 18 more zeros--in 10 trillionths of a second).
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