Polywell update from May - sounds like things are going really well!

[kristopher]

10. New Jersey nuclear fusion firm ratchets up Iranian collaboration

New Jersey nuclear fusion firm ratchets up Iranian collaboration
By Mark Halper | May 30, 2012, 1:54 AM PDT


...Eric Lerner, LPP’s president, and Mahmood Ghorannevis, who is head of Azad’s Plasma Physics Research Center (PPRC), signed the papers over the weekend of May 19th.


Some experts have for decades regarded fusion as the Holy Grail of energy sources that does not produce the dangerous waste associated with today’s fission nuclear power, and that augers a limitless supply of energy. Fusion puts atoms together rather than splitting them apart.


The problem so far has been that the elusive fusion process requires more energy than it returns.


To get around that obstacle, LPP is working on a form of fusion that’s different from “standard” fusion. It’s called “aneutronic”, and it does not rely on hot neutrons that escape during fusion and provide heat that drives a turbine.


Instead, it generates electricity directly – cutting out the turbine – by creating charged ions....

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/new-jersey-nuclear-fusion-firm-ratchets-up-iranian-collaboration/16400?tag=search-river