Hydrogen-Boron vs. Deuterium-Tritium

Nuclear fusion has the potential to generate power without the radioactive waste of nuclear fission, but that depends on which atoms you decide to fuse.  Conventional fusion approaches work with deuterium and tritium, while focus fusion works with hydrogen and boron eleven.

The Trouble with Tritium

27 kg and decaying.

Conventional Fusion vs. Focus Fusion

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.

What is “Focus Fusion”?

pB¹¹ + DPF

“Focus Fusion” refers to electricity generation using a Dense Plasma Focus (DPF)  nuclear fusion generator with hydrogen-boron fuel (pB¹¹).

Main Criticisms

There are two main criticisms of focus fusion:

1. Hydrogen-boron fuel allows too much x-ray cooling
2. Plasmoids can’t exist