Laberge’s General Fusion

He’s in Canada, so that’s Canadian dollars.  But still very pricey compared to Focus Fusion. 

Yes, another fusion approach.  Find out more about Laberge in this article. 

Choice observations from the article:

Yes, fusion has a stigma to overcome; the image that it is fundamentally bogus, always and forever 20 years away, certainly doesn’t help.

We can certainly relate!

But after some soul-searching, Laberge quit Creo, retired to an island off the coast of British Columbia, and set out to master nuclear fusion. Four years, several failures and $800,000 later (half from friends and family and half from matching government research grants), Laberge surfaced with a contraption that provided a proof-of-concept for his idea. It’s a shiny steel orb the size of a basketball from which dozens of cords protrude. Imagine those cranial caps from old science-fiction movies, and you’ll get the idea. The cords extend out to two dozen capacitors, and the whole thing is wired up to a tower of controls that could have been pulled from a 1950s battleship. It is the definition of low-tech, and that’s precisely the idea.

But will it work?  Another contender for the fusion prize.  Now, if only there were a fusion prize.

We are collecting alternative approaches to fusion here under “Fusion Alternatives”.  Thanks to Zareh for pointing out this approach.