Second quarter update here:
As of 2Q/2011, the WB-8 device has demonstrated excellent plasma confinement properties. EMC2 is conducting high power pulsed experiments on WB-8 to test the Wiffle-Ball plasma scaling law on plasma energy and confinement.
They also added one job: a microwave engineer. Of their $7,855,504 of funding they’ve used $3,382,826, compared with $3,216,826 as of the end of Q1 2011. At that rate it looks like they’ll be able to get to the end of the year without blowing their budget. Perhaps they could share the surplus with LPP. 😉
