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About FFS
- ACORE Regional Roundtable
- BBC Interview Re: Plasma Cosmology
- Contribute Now
- Cosmology Volunteer Sought
- Eric Lerner : LPP President, FFS Science Advisor
- FFS Global Warming Policy
- Focus Fusion Principles
- Fusion Concept Monitor beta
- Fusion Now
- Give a Man a Fish
- I'm Just a Bill on Capitol Hill
- Jim Trow - Technical Spokesperson
- Privacy Policy
- Rezwan Razani - Executive Director
- Seeking volunteers to cut together an Oil spill Fusion video
- Social Currency
- Terms of Use
- The role of a nonprofit in promoting aneutronic fusion
- The Stagecoach and the Spaceship
- Two Paths to Fusion
FFS Organization
Get Involved
Strategy
Programs
Press
- BBC Interview Re: Plasma Cosmology
- Build a Quasar in a lab and make electricity?
- Discover magazine Runs Article on Focus Fusion
- Eric Lerner Presents Focus Fusion at Google Tech Talks
- Focus Fusion Reported in New York Times
- GE Chimes In
- LPP in the Economist
- LPP Press Release
- Slashdot Discussion of Allan Fusion Article
- Sterling Allan - Open Source Energy Network Article
Events
- 6th Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research
- April 28 Panel Dicussion at UTS in NYC with Eric Lerner
- DPF Theoretical Seminar at PPPL
- FFS New York City Meeting - Feb. 22
- First New York City Focus Fusion Get together
- ICC recap and Bill Gates TED talk review
- NYC Meeting in Two Weeks
What is Focus Fusion?
- Awaiting construction permit, more equipment arrives
- Brzosko Reports Repeatable Functioning of DPF
- Clearing up Misconceptions
- Conventional Fusion vs. Focus Fusion
- Distributed Electricity Generation
- DPF Animation
- DPF Capacitor Bank and Diamond Switch
- DPF Construction
- DPF info from around the world
- Energy Crisis
- Eric Lerner Presents Focus Fusion at Google Tech Talks
- Focus Fusion is NOT Cold Fusion
- Fusion Concept Monitor beta
- Fusion in Spider Man II
- Fusion is not Fission
- History of Focus Fusion
- I'm Just a Bill on Capitol Hill
- Instrumentation and auxiliary equipment
- Is Focus Fusion RIGHT?
- Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Initiates Two-Year Experiment to Test Hydrogen-Boron Fusion
- Main Criticisms
- More evidence of high energy ions in DPF
- More realistic plasmoid simulation confirms net energy production
- Name the Baby Contest
- New Animations and Images in from Torulf Greek
- New Large DPF in Las Vegas Unveiled
- Pan American Dense Plasma Focus Network - Discussion
- Previous Dense Plasma Focus Research
- Proof of Concept
- Shielding Wall
- Shielding Wall design complete, bidding begins
- Simulation and Theory
- Simulation progress
- Singapore DPF group demonstrates high efficiency
- Size Matters: Tokamak, Polywell and DPF
- Test shots attempted yesterday...
- Test shots may be fired TODAY...please stand by.
- The First Shots
- The Magnetic Field Effect
- The Stagecoach and the Spaceship
- The trigger system
- The Trouble with Tritium
- Theory: How electron beams heat plasmoid electrons
- University of Illinois Space Propulsion
- Wall Construction
- What's wrong with the energy picture today?
- Z-pinch experiments demonstrate magnetic field effect
Aneutronic Fusion
Hydrogen Boron (pB11) Fuel
Dense Plasma Focus
- Brzosko Reports Repeatable Functioning of DPF
- Conventional Fusion vs. Focus Fusion
- DPF Animation
- DPF Capacitor Bank and Diamond Switch
- DPF info from around the world
- Focus Fusion is NOT Cold Fusion
- History of Focus Fusion
- Main Criticisms
- More evidence of high energy ions in DPF
- New Large DPF in Las Vegas Unveiled
- Pan American Dense Plasma Focus Network - Discussion
- Previous Dense Plasma Focus Research
- Shielding Wall design complete, bidding begins
- Singapore DPF group demonstrates high efficiency
- Size Matters: Tokamak, Polywell and DPF
- Z-pinch experiments demonstrate magnetic field effect
How Green Is It?
Challenges
- 6th Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research
- ATP Grant Application with GMU
- ATP Grant Update
- Barriers to Fusion
- Billion Degree Breakthrough at Texas A&M
- Bush's Energy Initiative
- Clearing up Misconceptions
- Energy Crisis
- Energy Secretary Steve Chu and Focus Fusion
- Fusion Concept Monitor beta
- Fusion in Spider Man II
- I'm Just a Bill on Capitol Hill
- ICC recap and Bill Gates TED talk review
- Main Criticisms
- Measuring a Billion Degrees
- NASA Funding Effort
- NIST ATP Grant Declined at Second Gate
- Science and Social Validation
- Social Currency
- The role of a nonprofit in promoting aneutronic fusion
- The Stagecoach and the Spaceship
- What are RSS and Atom?
Technical Challenges
Funding Challenges
- ARPA-E Application
- ARPA-E competition heats up
- ARPA-E Says No
- ATP Grant Application with GMU
- ATP Grant Update
- Barriers to Fusion
- Bush's Energy Initiative
- Energy Secretary Steve Chu and Focus Fusion
- Grant Application
- House hearing on fusion
- ICC recap and Bill Gates TED talk review
- NASA Funding Effort
- NIST ATP Grant Declined at Second Gate
Social Challenges
Innovation Challenge
- 6th Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research
- ARPA-E Application
- ARPA-E competition heats up
- ARPA-E Says No
- Barriers to Fusion
- Focus Fusion Credibility
- Focus Fusion Future's market
- Grant Application
- House hearing on fusion
- I'm Just a Bill on Capitol Hill
- ICC recap and Bill Gates TED talk review
- Is Focus Fusion RIGHT?
- Is This a Scam?
- LPP Receives Major Investments
- Proof of Concept
- Wilbur Wright
Website Issues
LPP Experiment
- 6th Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research
- Anode erosion and electron beam energy estimates
- Awaiting construction permit, more equipment arrives
- Billion Degree Breakthrough at Texas A&M
- Billion Degree Suppression
- Capacitors, Switch, Vacuum Chamber, Drift Tube
- Collaboration
- Collaboration with University of Ferrara
- Conclusions from anode design study
- Dated Report Brings Flurry of Interest
- DPF Construction
- DPF Design
- DPF Theoretical Seminar at PPPL
- Electrode Design
- Electrode design update
- End of May Update Soon
- Equipment and software arrives
- Eric Lerner : LPP President, FFS Science Advisor
- Far Time-of-Flight calibrated, noise problem eliminated
- FFS Simulation Project
- First ICCD image of plasmoid at FF-1
- First pictures of the crew!
- First results from 2-D simulation, 3-D simulation plans
- First Results From Italy
- First Simulation Success
- Focus Fusion Society volunteer will perform thermal analysis of reactor design
- Focus Fusion website redesign draws volunteers, intense discussion
- Fred Van Roessel joins LPPX
- Fusion Patent Application
- Gestation
- Giga Gauss Magnetic Fields
- History of Focus Fusion
- How Will We Get There From Here?
- ICCD Camera
- Improvements in Firing and Instruments
- Instrumentation and auxiliary equipment
- Instrumentation – Silver activation detector installed
- Is Focus Fusion RIGHT?
- Job Opening - Experimental Plasma Physicist
- Kansas State Graduate Students Arrive to Help LPP Project
- Large- Scale Computer Simulation Work Initiated
- Latin American Experiment - First Data
- Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Initiates Two-Year Experiment to Test Hydrogen-Boron Fusion
- LPP and UNAM Prepare New Focus Experiments
- LPP Experiment Update - Nov. 2, 2009
- LPP Experiment: 8 goals and timeline
- LPP Has Opening for Part Time Lab Assistant
- LPP Hires Abdelmoula Haboub
- LPP March Update
- LPP presents at ICOPS
- LPP Press Release
- LPP Receives $500,000 Investment from The Abell Foundation, Inc.
- LPP Receives Major Investments
- LPP simulation team to participate in Dense Z-Pinch Conference in August
- LPP Submits Patent Application
- LPP Team Starts Looking at Ion-Beam Energy Extraction
- LPP’s Newly Assembled DPF Achieves First Shots and Pinch
- Measurements of Ion Energy/Temperature
- Measuring a Billion Degrees
- Milestone Update
- More on Magnetic Fields
- More Progress in Solving Switching Problems
- More realistic plasmoid simulation confirms net energy production
- More Reliable Firing at Greater Current
- Name the Baby Contest
- NASA Funding Effort
- Neutron Time of Flight Detectors
- New Calibration Confirms FF-1’s High Fusion Yields
- New Magnetic Effect Discussed at Conferences
- New Spark Plugs Pass First Tests
- New Study Begun on Limits to Magnetic Field Effect
- Plasma Density Measurement
- Possible collaboration with Ukrainian Researcher
- Preliminary Evidence of Angular Momentum Effect
- Preliminary Evidence of High-Energy Ions
- Preparation of Experiment
- Previous Dense Plasma Focus Research
- Progress in Fusion Simulations
- Progress in Solving Switching Problems
- Progress in Switching – all capacitors firing, but more reliability needed
- Progress on Shielding
- Re-Analysis of Texas Data Shows High Stability of Plasmoid and Helps to Build Simulations
- Reports of More High-Ion Energy Data
- Research Plan
- Shielding Wall
- Shielding Wall design complete, bidding begins
- Significance of first shots and pinch, and note on process
- Simulation and Theory
- Simulation progress
- Simulation Progress
- Simulation progress
- Simulation Results
- Simultaneous Firing at Last, First Pinch above 1 Mega-Amp, Record-High Pressure
- Test shots attempted yesterday...
- Test shots may be fired TODAY...please stand by.
- The First Shots
- The trigger system
- Theoretical Seminars Begin
- Two versions of 1-D filament simulations now running, being de-bugged
- Wall Construction
- XinPei Lu Arrives
- XinPei Lu delayed in China
Technical Reports
- Anode erosion and electron beam energy estimates
- End of May Update Soon
- First ICCD image of plasmoid at FF-1
- First Simulation Success
- How Will We Get There From Here?
- Improvements in Firing and Instruments
- LPP March Update
- LPP presents at ICOPS
- Measurements of Ion Energy/Temperature
- More on Magnetic Fields
- More Reliable Firing at Greater Current
- New Calibration Confirms FF-1’s High Fusion Yields
- Preliminary Evidence of Angular Momentum Effect
- Preliminary Evidence of High-Energy Ions
- Reports of More High-Ion Energy Data
- Simultaneous Firing at Last, First Pinch above 1 Mega-Amp, Record-High Pressure
Theory
DPF Design
Methodology
Instruments
Troubleshooting
Simulations
LPP Personnel
- Eric Lerner : LPP President, FFS Science Advisor
- First pictures of the crew!
- Fred Van Roessel joins LPPX
- Job Opening - Experimental Plasma Physicist
- Kansas State Graduate Students Arrive to Help LPP Project
- LPP Has Opening for Part Time Lab Assistant
- LPP Hires Abdelmoula Haboub
- XinPei Lu Arrives
- XinPei Lu delayed in China
History
- 6th Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research
- Billion Degree Suppression
- Collaboration
- Collaboration with University of Ferrara
- DPF Theoretical Seminar at PPPL
- First Results From Italy
- Latin American Experiment - First Data
- LPP and UNAM Prepare New Focus Experiments
- LPP Submits Patent Application
- NASA Funding Effort
- New Magnetic Effect Discussed at Conferences
- Possible collaboration with Ukrainian Researcher
Milestones
- Billion Degree Breakthrough at Texas A&M
- Equipment and software arrives
- Eric Lerner Presents Focus Fusion at Google Tech Talks
- History of Focus Fusion
- Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Initiates Two-Year Experiment to Test Hydrogen-Boron Fusion
- LPP Press Release
- LPP Receives $500,000 Investment from The Abell Foundation, Inc.
- LPP Receives Major Investments
- LPP Submits Patent Application
- Milestone Update
- Patent Issued
Fusion Race
- Conventional Fusion vs. Focus Fusion
- Energy Secretary Steve Chu and Focus Fusion
- Finding inspiration in the X PRIZE® Award
- Fusion Alternatives
- Fusion Confidence Monitor
- Fusion is not Fission
- Fusion Now
- ICC recap and Bill Gates TED talk review
- Public pursuit of fusion
- Russian Group Achieves pB11 Fusion With Very Small Yield
- Size Matters: Tokamak, Polywell and DPF
- The Stagecoach and the Spaceship
- Z-Pinch
Betting on Fusion
Fusion Prize
Contenders
- Brzosko Reports Repeatable Functioning of DPF
- Conventional Fusion vs. Focus Fusion
- Dr. Robert Bussard, 1928-2007
- Fusion Alternatives
- Fusion is not Fission
- GE Chimes In
- ICC recap and Bill Gates TED talk review
- ITER Pitch - and recruiting Australians
- Laberge's General Fusion
- Russian Group Achieves pB11 Fusion With Very Small Yield
- Should Google Go Nuclear
- Size Matters: Tokamak, Polywell and DPF
- The Stagecoach and the Spaceship
- Z-Pinch
Fusion Future
- Are Renewables in Competition with Focus Fusion?
- Conventional Fusion vs. Focus Fusion
- Distributed Electricity Generation
- Energy Crisis
- Fusion in Spider Man II
- Fusion is not Fission
- Give a Man a Fish
- I'm Just a Bill on Capitol Hill
- Light Bulb Transition Screw-up
- Poverty
- Serenity Generator Plot Device
- Teddy Roosevelt
- The Middle East
- The Stagecoach and the Spaceship
- The Trouble with Tritium
- Transition to Hybrid Cars
- What's wrong with the energy picture today?
Truly Green Nuclear Energy
Fusion World
Transition
- Are Renewables in Competition with Focus Fusion?
- Energy and Income
- Energy and Security
- Fusion World
- Give a Man a Fish
- Heat and Thermal Pollution
- Light Bulb Transition Screw-up
- LPP Receives Major Investments
- Poverty
- Serenity Generator Plot Device
- Teddy Roosevelt
- The Energy Industry
- The Environment
- The Matrix - Energy Conservation
- The Middle East
- Transition to Fusion World
- Transition to Hybrid Cars
- Transitions in Housing
- Water
- What's wrong with the energy picture today?
Learning Center
Plasma Network
Fun
- Focus Fusion Future's market
- Fusion Concept Monitor beta
- Fusion in Spider Man II
- Light Bulb Transition Screw-up
- Name the Baby Contest
- New Animations and Images in from Torulf Greek
- Prometheus - The Comic
- Serenity Generator Plot Device
- Social Currency
- Teddy Roosevelt
- The Baby has a Name!
- The Matrix - Energy Conservation
- The speed of light - Ninja style
- Transitions in Housing