Reprinted from the LPPX May 19, 2011 Report:
Major improvement in repeatability of fusion yield and beam production. Repeatable fusion yield is now within a factor of 4 of predictions. Clues found from data and simulation on improving filamentation, ending the early-beam problem and boosting yield up to predictions.
Reprinted from the LPPX May 19, 2011 Report:
Backgrounder: Find out why these upgraded switches are so important to LPP’s breakthrough fusion research with this overview from the Focus Fusion Society, and this article on Next Big Future.
View the report on LPP’s website.
View the whole report as a pdf.
Questions? Ask Eric Lerner in person, at the June 1 FFS Meetup in NYC.
The report was sent out to dues paying members yesterday.
Topics include:
From the LPP March 3, 2011 report: Measurement of intense, high-energy X-rays from the electron beam through 6” of metal demonstrate the technical feasibility of X-Scan spin-off technology
LPP has set up a Wishlist on their site for used equipment.
From LPP’s February 7, 2011 report: Pulling it all together: New results from LPP together with a freshly released publication from Warsaw yield greater understanding of plasmoid formation and the path towards higher fusion yield
From LPP’s February 7, 2011 report: New anisotropy measurements show more evidence for plasmoid origin of fusion reactions
From LPP’s February 7, 2011 report: More evidence for high energy efficiency—a high resolution plasmoid image.
Per LPP: “In an eventful January in the lab, we have seen evidence for the first time that we have achieved high efficiency of energy transfer into the plasmoid and the beam. More than 15% of total bank energy, over 8 kJ, passed through to the beams.”
Parts of the LPP February 7, 2011 report are available on LPP’s website. The whole report is available here as a pdf.
LPP: Progress Over the past Year—Where are we and Where are we going?
[Report from Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, reprinted here. Available as a pdf file.]
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