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2010

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March

• 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

• Cute as a button

• Glossary

• gascancancan

• 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

• Wall Construction

• ARPA-E Says No

July

• ill-shapen innovation

• ARPA-E competition heats up

• First pictures of the crew!

June

• Awaiting construction permit, more equipment arrives

• Theory: How electron beams heat plasmoid electrons

• Grant Application

• Focus Fusion Future’s market

• XinPei Lu Arrives

• ARPA-E Application

• Simulation progress

• Equipment—End of Design Phase, Beginning of Fabrication and Construction Phase

May

• Shielding Wall

• Energy and Income

• Jim Trow - Technical Spokesperson

April

• XinPei Lu delayed in China

• Simulation progress

• Shielding Wall design complete, bidding begins

• Capacitors, Switch, Vacuum Chamber, Drift Tube

• The illusion of understanding

March

• Equipment and software arrives

• Progress on Shielding

• Simulation Progress

• Theoretical Seminars Begin

February

• Preparation of Experiment

• The speed of light - Ninja style

• Neutron safety applications

• Are Renewables in Competition with Focus Fusion?

January

• Prometheus - The Comic

• The Ordeal of Change

• The Black Swan:  The Impact of the Highly Improbable

• The Electric Sky

• Ingenious plasma

• The Big Bang Never Happened

• Patent Issued

• Fusion Now

• More evidence of high energy ions in DPF

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2008

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December

• Laberge’s General Fusion

• Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Initiates Two-Year Experiment to Test Hydrogen-Boron Fusion

• LPP Receives $500,000 Investment from The Abell Foundation, Inc.