Reply To: Focus fusion and transportation

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Breakable wrote: It would be interesting to see the FF reactor to go open source, and people building one for their own community in 10-15 years.

Perhaps it’s a misperception on my part, but it seems to me that one of the most exciting things about focus fusion is its relatively technical simplicity. That’s not to say that there is not a lot of very hard work needed to do the research and get it operational, but if/when it does work, the actual device appears pretty simple, arguably much simpler than any other fusion design, and simpler even than most power generation technologies. All of the individual technological pieces are pretty well understood and easily produced to whatever specs one needs. My guess is that, once there is a demonstration of substantial over-unity energy from FoFu, it will be very difficult to prevent these devices from popping up all over the place. (I suppose that’s a real risk for the business side of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics — if this approach works, it may be so easy to reproduce that it is difficult for LPP to profit from.)