LPP October 2010 Report

Posted by Lerner on Oct 13, 2010 at 09:41 PM
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Summary:

September was another good month for LPP and Focus Fusion Technology.  We achieved repeatable, reliable and simultaneous firing of the switches.  This enabled us to get the fusion yield back up to the levels first achieved in March and to push ion energy up above 100 keV, into the range suitable for igniting pB11 fuel.  We reached a better theoretical understanding of the role of our axial field coil in reaching an exact matching of the time of pinch and the peak current, which is critical for optimal energy transfer to the plasmoid and high fusion yields.  Finally, we achieved the first high-resolution image of a plasmoid in FF-1.

LPP’s first webinar was successful, with 15 attendees.  A presentation by LPP President Eric Lerner at Science House in New York City has drawn more investment interest.  A new Focus Fusion Society video of our first repeatable switch firings has been viewed over 5,000 times, putting it in the top 6% of YouTube videos.  If you’ve already seen it, you might want to check it out again.  Derek Shannon has annotated the video, clarifying what’s going on.

• Firing all switches repeatedly and reliably
• Switch reliability allows higher fusion yield
• Highest ion energy observed, over 100 keV
• ICCD photos show 150-micron plasmoid, sequence of events in pinch