Matt M wrote: I suspect the Focus Fusion people are going to find that a pinch is a very difficult thing to contoll – much less optimize.

I cannot help but recall that Edison tried over 2000 times to develop a filament for his electric light bulb. If he was not such an incredibly stubborn visionary – we might still be sitting in the dark.

Unfortunately for FF, they will have thousands of helpful people watching over their shoulders, highlighting the problems with the first 1999 approaches, explaining in detail why the approach will never work.

Too bad most of these naysayers have enough eddycashun to be dangerous to themselves and their readers- if any.