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DaveMart wrote: For aircraft travel a practicable Focus fusion power supply would greatly reduce the fuel weight, and also eliminate the substantial fire risk and most of the terrorism threat, together with eliminating most of the issues of exhaust pollution from the aircraft affecting climate, and so is hugely relevant to the Air industry’s needs.

In another thread, Lerner said powering aircraft is possible, but not probable.

Lerner wrote: Basically even with shielding, a focus fusion reactor is light enough to fit into a train, plane (airliner) or ship. But, except for ships, that might not be the best way to go.

Commercial aircraft is only a small but very visible part of the transportation sector. Focus Fusion will have a bigger effect on transportation powering container ships, freight trains and electric vehicles indirectly through the power grid.

Conversion of an airliner to Focus Fusion would be high-profile advertisement for FF, an “orange grove in Alaska” as someone put it. It would be saying, “If Focus Fusion can do this, it can do anything!” Widespread acceptance of FF for mundane power generation would soon follow.