Why does the “X” PRIZE Foundation inspire us so? 

• They have demonstrated that prizes stimulate innovation;
• Innovation has an element of chance, which can be leveraged;
• We feel that the fusion industry would take off if there were a similar prize for fusion.  We seek to actively lobby for such a prize, from the “X” PRIZE Foundation and any other foundation willing to put forth a similar prize.

Note:  “X PRIZE” is a trademark of the “X” PRIZE Foundation, Inc.  The “X” PRIZE Foundation, Inc. does not currently offer a fusion prize.

Why are we taking such a public approach to the pursuit of fusion?  Several reasons.

Energy production has three main elements:  fuel, reactor and generator (why these three?).  Conventional fusion and focus fusion differ significantly in their approach to these three elements:

• Fuel:  Focus Fusion uses a different fuel, hydrogen and boron, rather than the conventional Deuterium and Tritium. 
• Reactor:  It uses a much smaller, inexpensive, more elegant reactor, the Dense Plasma Focus.  In contrast, conventional approaches to fusion revolve around the tokamak, a large, unwieldy and very expensive device that has consumed billions of dollars in research money and is still very far from achieving net energy. 
• Generator:The Focus Fusion approach seeks to generate electricity directly. The tokamak is designed to generate heat which then has to be converted to electricity using expensive turbines and generators.

Fission and Fusion are both Nuclear Energy.  When people discuss nuclear power, they are usually referring to nuclear fission. This is because we have many nuclear power plants that use fission, but no one has been able to build a working fusion plant yet.  The biggest practical difference between the two is that fusion reactions don’t have the problem of “chain reactions” and “melt-downs”.