It's raining fusion projects
This week, three press releases came out about separate nuclear fusion initiatives. First up was the University of Washington, who announced on October 8 that they will present their "dynomak" concept at the upcoming Fusion Energy Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida Russia. Next up was Sandia Labs on October 14 , who announced new results from their "Z-machine" , including significant neutron production. Finally, we have Lockheed-Martin, who announced on October 15 that they had made a breakthrough in some sort of cylindrical-confinement fusion configuration, and are working toward building a 100Mw reactor in the next decade that would fit in a semi trailer. These follow on the heels of prior announcements from: EMC2 Fusion, which claimed on June 1 that they have validated magnetic cusp confinement when beta is close to unity - this is an important step toward creating an energy-producing Polywell fusor . General Fusion , who is working to...