FOCUS FUSION-1 IS BORN!
Powerful New Fusion Device Achieves First Shots
October 15, 2009

Link (http://focusfusion.org/assets/pdf/LPP_Press_Release_Oct_09.pdf)

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FOCUS FUSION-1 IS BORN!
Powerful New Fusion Device Achieves First Shots
October 15, 2009

Link (http://focusfusion.org/assets/pdf/LPP_Press_Release_Oct_09.pdf)Could have sworn this was about Ford automobiles...

Interesting, I hadn't heard of this.
Hydrogen-boron - the end product of their fusion is carbon ?

And it sounds like they won't need to get rid of a heavily radioactive tokamak steel containment vessel at the end of the fusion reactors lifetime.

I wonder if supercomputers are allowing them to better understand the basic physics of plasma instabilities that they are exploiting...

Interesting, I hadn't heard of this.
Hydrogen-boron - the end product of their fusion is carbon ?

And it sounds like they won't need to get rid of a heavily radioactive tokamak steel containment vessel at the end of the fusion reactors lifetime.

I wonder if supercomputers are allowing them to better understand the basic physics of plasma instabilities that they are exploiting...

I think it was more a change of strategy, rather than any better understanding. Instead of trying to contain and control plasma, they just use the tendency of this configuration of fields to collapse to compress the fuel and achieve fusion.

Wiki has a great write-up on hydrogen-boron fusion and it's products here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion). It's the last reaction in the list.

Wow, This is great news. By capturing the energy created by the instability of the plasma, there is no waste. It looks like this is the right track to clean energy, a few years out.
With one of these in each city the grid will not be needed and the multi billion dollar grid upgrade will be outdated before it is complete!

My interest is peaked.

Tremendous progress has been made over the past couple years, as they doggedly hone their device and instrumentation. Each improvement in the data allows them to see more clearly into the operation of the device, leading to improvements in the components and systems, leading to better data and so on ...

Link (http://focusfusion.org/assets/lppx/LPPX_2011_05_19.pdf)

Given their current status, they have already found applications for this technology beyond energy production. Still, they will continue to improve the device's repeatibility and longterm reliability for its intended energy applications.