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It should not be up to you to implement. I am looking for a WordPress developer to help me out and to generally improve the site

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If you are asking if proton-boron it was done in practice here is a reference link from wikipedia:
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3506

Eric also did some work using proton boron using someone else’s DPF, but I cant quickly find a link for you on that.

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Cool!
The electrodes look very similar to DPF. I wonder what is the current and theoretical momentum per watt?
If this can take you to space, then maybe it can work in space and if not you can use a DPF for both power and propulsion.

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Thanks for asking. FFS does have paid staff, but they are not paid a lot or do a lot of work as as such we are mainly run by unpaid volunteers. I am working to change that and be able to compensate our volunteers, interns and have full-time paid staff, but for beginning we need volunteers to help us build up the organisation a bit and then we can actually be able to raise money in the amounts necessary to support paid staff. This is yet another catch 22 – what in the fusion world is not a catch 22?
Considering we have 300 USD per day Google Ads Grant and have huge numbers of people visiting website each day, we just need a few minor tweaks and some content additions to the website to get that going – and we do have people showing interest, but only a few interested in volunteering.
I expect this position to be only a few hours a week to be able to produce one 400 words article or so. This would enable us better target the website and in addition to a few other tweaks would be enough to get the Sisyphus boulder over the peak.
I am working on more and refining the job specs as well as other organisational documents. Once I have all the job specs ready I will publish them more widely and hopefully we can get enough interests that sifting trough all the flakes will find us a few golden grains that will help make fusion a reality. Naturally once there are enough contributions to pay salaries, we would prioritise the people who actually helped build the organisation rather than someone late to the party.
Would YOU like to volunteer?

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I have set up WP Statistics, but it is not compatible with the php version we have. Once we have server administrator or developper he can upgrade php and we can enable wp statistics.

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Sorry, my mistake – its a spherical tokamak.
A spheromak is a (self-sustaining) toroidal confinement configuration without a central conductor – hence different from a spherical tokamak

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Hi Francis, not at the moment as inter-cell computations are still important, however once it gets into a good state and goes open-source people might find ways to re-purpose it for distributed computing.

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Yes, at least the forum font certainly need to be increased so it is easier to read by default.
The website font size could also be increased a bit.

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From the abstract an a quick google it is just a model of Spheromak:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheromak

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Some other fuels, not sure if it exhaustive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

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I am sorry if you might have gotten more than one email. Setting up a newsletter on WP was a lot of pain and our mailing lists are currently disorganized, but should get better in the future.

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Alburton, I am not currently qualified to answer this, but I would not think you would have different formulas to calculate yield – its a function of triple product – density, time and temperature and if you are measuring neutrons, then you are actually measuring yield. If you would like to suggest an alternative theory to explain the yield without having plasmoid, such as for example to say that the in the absence of plasmoid somehow plasma density is low while temperature is up then its possible, but it does not change the outcome of the number of reactions happening and plasma igniting and/or burning for the duration of time and reactor still working as intended and producing an Ion and Electron beam somehow.

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Copying the reply from the comments below the article:
>Dr. Hopkins’ analysis misses the whole point of our July 2012 paper, which was about our demonstrating record-breaking temperatures in our confined plasma. Hopkins complained that we had not demonstrated record-breaking fusion yields. But yields depend not only on temperature but on densities as well and we were not claiming any superior density or yield. The paper was about the record temperatures. It was demonstrating that this temperature—sufficient to ignite hydrogen-boron fuel, was indeed confined in a small plasmoid that made our paper the most-read one of 2012 in Physics of Plasma, the leading journal in our field. Evidently a lot of our colleagues got the point, even if Dr. Hopkins missed it. As to densities, we expect to greatly improve them and achieve record fusion yields as well in our next series of experiments.”

This video has some slides from their camera documenting plasmoid formation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abvdXZfUHIg&feature=youtu.be

AFAIK they also have tested the fusion yields with without angular magnetic field which is theorised to help with plasmoid formation and saw an improvement.
Not sure if this is this paper (I haven’t read it to be fair)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/1770673_Advances_towards_pB11_Fusion_with_the_Dense_Plasma_Focus

Now as far as I am aware LPPFusion is focusing on fusion yield rather than validation of plasmoid existence especially since while they were able to achieve single dimensional simulations, multi-dimensional physical simulations proved to far from reach based on the resources available to them.

I am not sure whether better theoretical evidence would help with attracting more investors or whether they would like greater control of the company than is currently offered.

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It is quite simple – increase the current and you will get higher density. Now the trick is that increasing current causes breakdown of current carrying surface and that contaminates plasma with materials from cathode (or anode?). So there needs to be a way to prevent it. Initial plan was to use pre-ionisation to deal with that and AFAIK researching that is in progress.

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In case of urgent reply needed feel free to use the phone number as indicated on their website:
http://lppfusion.com/contact/

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