More detail from LPP’s March 31 report:

From LPP’s March 31 report:  “Improvements in Firing and Instruments Combine to Produce Encouraging Results”:

From LPPs March 31 Report:

In March, LPP’s project advanced on both the experimental and financial fronts, as well as within the fusion community.  Experimentally, LPP has increased the current and stability of Focus Fusion-1 and improved their instruments, allowing them to get new evidence for high ion energy, the rapid scaling of fusion yield with current, and the influence of small magnetic fields, among other important results.  Regarding the fusion community, LPP President Eric Lerner gave a theoretical seminar on the DPF at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.  From their website:

LPP has obtained the first preliminary evidence that the injection of angular momentum into the DPF considerably increases the efficiency of energy transfer into the plasmoid, the size of the plasmoid and thus the fusion energy yield.  On Feb. 19 and 22, the team fired Focus-Fusion-1 at 24 kV with a pressure of 8 torr of deuterium in the vacuum chamber.  In some shots, they connected the angular momentum coil (AMC) to the power supply, so current could flow through it.  In other shots, they left the coil circuit open, so no current could flow.  The shots with the AMC connected have a neutron yield 8-10 times that of those with the AMC disconnected, so this is a large and very promising effect.

[This report from LPP]  We have obtained the first preliminary evidence that Focus-Fusion-1, like the Texas A&M machine and PF-1000 in Warsaw is producing high-energy ions.  This evidence indicates that,  even operating well below its intended current, FF-1 has produced ions with an average energy of at least 45 keV, the equivalent of half a billion degrees C.

Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. (LPP) policy on data release, as stated by Eric Lerner, President:

Now that our Focus-Fusion-1 device is operational, we know that many people who have been following this project will be eagerly awaiting our experimental results. LPP firmly believes that scientific advances occur when results, both positive and negative, are freely shared and discussed throughout the community.

However, it is important to understand that experimental data have to be analyzed, digested and interpreted before they can become meaningful results. This takes time and affects the way that results are released.