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2010

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August

• Project:  Plasma Temp-Density Diagram

• Leopoldo Soto’s Plasma Videos

• FoFu-1: The Music Video!  Plasma physics meets “Electric Feel” for science

• Pinhole camera effects

• Progress with Time of Flight Detectors

• X-ray PMTs reveal more than 60 keV electron energies, triple pulse structure

• July Switch Update

• Great video on the Tokamak

• Fossils or Fusion?  Your Energy Future

• Decaborane and the Vacuum System

• Decaborane Handling Issues:  Design Modifications for pB11 Fusion Research

July

• ICCD Camera

• First ICCD image of plasmoid at FF-1

• Tour the Future of Fusion in Google Earth

• Reports of More High-Ion Energy Data

• LPP presents at ICOPS

• Fred Van Roessel joins LPPX

June

• How Will We Get There From Here?

• Seeking volunteers to cut together an Oil spill Fusion video

• Milestone Update

• Kansas State Graduate Students Arrive to Help LPP Project

• New Spark Plugs Pass First Tests

• New Calibration Confirms FF-1’s High Fusion Yields

• End of May Update Soon

• FFS Global Warming Policy

May

• Two Paths to Fusion

• First Simulation Success

• Simultaneous Firing at Last, First Pinch above 1 Mega-Amp, Record-High Pressure

• Science and Social Validation

• Size Matters:  Tokamak, Polywell and DPF

April

• Measurements of Ion Energy/Temperature

• Gardeners of Eden

• The Stagecoach and the Spaceship

• The role of a nonprofit in promoting aneutronic fusion

• Fusion Concept Monitor beta

• Social Currency

• April 28 Panel Dicussion at UTS in NYC with Eric Lerner

• Anode erosion and electron beam energy estimates

• More on Magnetic Fields

• Improvements in Firing and Instruments

• More Reliable Firing at Greater Current

• LPP March Update

March

• DPF Theoretical Seminar at PPPL

• Cosmology Volunteer Sought

• LPP Has Opening for Part Time Lab Assistant

• Instrumentation – Silver activation detector installed

• LPP and PPPL Informal Collaboration

• Progress in Switching – all capacitors firing, but more reliability needed

February

• Fusion Confidence Monitor

• Preliminary Evidence of Angular Momentum Effect

• ICC recap and Bill Gates TED talk review

• FFS New York City Meeting - Feb. 22

January

• NYC Meeting in Two Weeks

• New Large DPF in Las Vegas Unveiled

• More Progress in Solving Switching Problems

• Far Time-of-Flight calibrated, noise problem eliminated

• Two versions of 1-D filament simulations now running, being de-bugged

• Preliminary Evidence of High-Energy Ions

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2009

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December

• Neutron Time of Flight Detectors

• Progress in Solving Switching Problems

• Gestation

• Glossary

• Fun with Fusion

• Contenders…

• How Hard Is It?

• Aneutronic Fusion

November

• Giving Thanks, 2009

• Energy Secretary Steve Chu and Focus Fusion

• Survival vs. Fun

• Driver of innovation

• DPF Animation

• About FFS

• LPP Experiment:  8 goals and timeline

• Significance of first shots and pinch, and note on process

• LPP Experiment Update - Nov. 2, 2009

October

• House hearing on fusion

• First New York City Focus Fusion Get together

• LPP in the Economist

• LPP Press Release

• LPP’s policy on data release

• The Baby has a Name!

• LPP’s Newly Assembled DPF Achieves First Shots and Pinch

• The trigger system

• Test shots attempted yesterday…

• Test shots may be fired TODAY…please stand by.

September

• LPP Hires Abdelmoula Haboub

• DPF info from around the world

• Mylar and First Shot update

• Funding fusion alternatives

• Killing a fairy tale

• Disrupting the signal

• Value of cognitive diversity

• Setting up the site for Member Participation

• The First Shots

August

• Assembly Begins

• Job Opening - Experimental Plasma Physicist

• Previous Dense Plasma Focus Research

• Simulation and Theory

• Instrumentation and auxiliary equipment

• DPF Construction