On: Secretary Granholm to announce major scientific breakthrough by DOE [video]

[conradev]

Direct energy conversion is not as pie in the sky as you might think. Several startups are working on aneutronic fusion[1].

This is a great video explaining (and showing) what Helion is up to at the moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GJtGpvE1sQ

[1] For those not familiar, aneutronic fusion releases charged particles from which energy can be captured directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Energy_captu...