The Focus Fusion Society presents the Fall 2010 webinar update on the Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) focus fusion feasibility experiment.

With ambitious goals close on the horizon, now is a great time to get excited about the science that will stream out of FoFu-1’s experimental program like helium from its electrodes!

And if you have no idea what the previous sentence meant, this video is a great place to join the party!  Check out one of the most exciting and near-term clean energy investigations on the planet as the FoFu-1 dense plasma focus unleashes its lightning against MGMT‘s “Electric Feel (Justice Remix)”.  Then lend your support as science determines just how these whirling plasma filaments dance.

On March 18, Lerner gave an invited presentation on the function of the DPF to an audience of some twenty physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the nation’s largest fusion lab.

LPP has established an informal scientific collaboration with Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), the largest fusion facility in the US.  The collaboration has already yielded valuable suggestions on further steps to improve LPP’s switches.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu gave a talk at Google, Oct. 26, 2009.  During the question and answer period, someone asks him about Focus Fusion.

A futures market has now been opened for Focus Fusion at Intrade.com under Scientific—Focus Fusion.  Here is how the contract is phrased:

Will net power be generated using the Focus Fusion process?
Focus Fusion process to generate net power before midnight ET on 31 Dec 2014.

Focus Fusion is the fruit of a research program involving dozens of experimental groups over 40 years [more info]. Here we list and link to the various groups we’ve collaborated with most recently.

Lawrenceville Plasma Physics submitted a patent application to the US Patent Office on February 28, 2006.
Update 1/27/2009:  Patent issued. 

Funding not assured for NIST-ATP grant proposals for 2006.

The new FFS-LPP collaboration with a Latin American plasma focus group has produced its first data. The data is being used for calibration of the five scintillators that measure neutron flux, x-ray flux and x-ray temperature. Such calibration must be done carefully, because temperature measurements are based on the ratios of the signals from the scintillators when they are placed behind metal filters of different thicknesses. This data ends a long (four-year!) drought of experimental data for our project.

Notes on the Symposium from Eric Lerner:

• Sentiment at the Symposium
• Our Presentation
• TriAlpha Energy at the Symposium

A possible theoretical collaboration is developing with a Ukrainian researcher, Anton Tykhyy, who has volunteered to help.

FFS Executive Director Eric J. Lerner is currently seeking NASA funding for focus fusion research.

The NIST Advanced Technology Program announced its grant awards for 2004. Focus fusion passed the first gate which was based on technical merit. Unfortunately, we did not receive an award at the second gate which was based on commercialization potential. The feedback from the program did not indicate that they felt there was no commercialization potential, just that we had not made a strong enough case in our grant proposal.