Reply To: $40million raised for boron fusion

[emmetb]

I had a brief email exchange with the founder (you know; being a shareholder and all 😉 )

Now i’m not *completely* convinced anymore it’s all pseudoscience.

I would say they’re being very sparse in the details (which is probably an indication that it is indeed pseudoscience… but still… they’re a commercial enterprise asking for 32M EUR with this stock emission).

I asked specifically for a comparison with the FF concept. From the brief (yet polite and well phrased) answer that i got i made out that they claim that, as oposed to FF and Z-pinch, electrostratic fields play an important role in their approach to accelerate the plasma (some kind of weird mix; electrostatic inertial fusion in magnetically self confined plasmoids?).

Truth be told I find those ball lightnings fascinating. Extremely rare but by now uncontested phenomenon. Especially the extreme variant got some attention also in ICOPS 2006:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/webnews/ieee_plasma_balllightening.htm

It would be nice if some more informed people on this forum could shine their light over this. Are these guys really up to something here?