“B” for brilliant!  News from Lawrencville Plasma Physics (“LPP”):  “Acceptance of latest results to Physics of Plasmas confirms tiny energy start-up is hot!”

LPP worked together with the Focus Fusion Society to compile images from the experiment’s high-speed camera into an overall movie of what is happening when Focus Fusion-1 fires its capacitor bank.

The Journal of Fusion Energy has accepted LPP‘s article “Theory and experimental program for p-B¹¹ Fusion” for publication.  (Updated since 1/12/2011 -  It is now available online).

From LPP’s December 30, 2010 report.  Further explanation of this is in the Press Release.

An update of LPP’s progress so far along the 8 milestones.

FFI (Focus Fusion 1), LPP’s experimental device, has achieved higher fusion yields than have been achieved with any other DPF at the same peak current. 

Though remarkable, this yield is still 5 orders of magnitude short of the fusion yield required to prove scientific feasibility of focus fusion.  How does the team hope to make up the difference? 

An update of progress so far along the 8 milestones.

Lawrenceville Plasma Physics has issued a press release on their first shots.  Here is the LPP Press Release as a pdf file and LPP Press Release as a word doc.  LPP (and FFS) for that matter, need help expanding their list of science journalists to send press releases to.  If you have suggestions, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Focus Fusion 1, aka “FoFu”

We have now received the first batch of equipment and software for our laboratory/office in Middlesex NJ. We installed the complete office part of the facility, with four cubicles and four computers and have transferred our files to the new office.

On January, 27, the US Patent office issued patent 7,482,607, Method and apparatus for producing x-rays, ion beams and nuclear fusion energy, to Eric J. Lerner and Aaron Blake, with the assignment of the patent to Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Inc.

WEST ORANGE, NJ - Dec. 18, 2008 - Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Inc., (“LPP”) a small research and development company based in West Orange, NJ, announces the initiation of a two-year-long experimental project to test the scientific feasibility of Focus Fusion.

On December 11, LPP and the Abell Foundation, Inc. reached agreement on an investment of $500,000 in return for 25,000 shares. Together with previously-announced investments from individuals, this new money gives LPP the $1.2 million needed for its two-year experiment.

After a 7-year hiatus in our experimental work, LPP is back on track to test the feasibility of Focus Fusion!

See Eric Lerner presenting focus fusion at the Google Tech Talks on October 3.  Click here for the Google Tech Talk video.