Sounds like some promising results, hopefully this approach will continue to be useful.
Addressing the wider article, it always surprises me that the focus fusion approach is never mentioned in fusion articles put out by the mainstream media. I don't know what to attribute that to, but it's surprising that one of the most promising fusion approaches is constantly overlooked.
To give an idea how drastically overlooked focus fusion is, here's a graph showing R&D budgets for different fusion projects...
You'd think that the second most efficient device would've gotten more than $5 million in funding over 20 years (I think the original funding was from NASA back in 1994).
Addressing the wider article, it always surprises me that the focus fusion approach is never mentioned in fusion articles put out by the mainstream media. I don't know what to attribute that to, but it's surprising that one of the most promising fusion approaches is constantly overlooked.
To give an idea how drastically overlooked focus fusion is, here's a graph showing R&D budgets for different fusion projects...
http://lppfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/fusion-funds...
... and here's a graph showing energy efficiency of fusion devices (running on deuterium I believe)...
http://lppfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/wall-plug-ch...
You'd think that the second most efficient device would've gotten more than $5 million in funding over 20 years (I think the original funding was from NASA back in 1994).