[FPSPACE] Inertial Confinement Fusion update - May 5, 2008

[LARRY KLAES]

Inertial Confinement Fusion update - May 5, 2008

One interesting point is that the University of Wisconsin has 100 people and 
about 10 million in budget per year that is devoted inertial confinement 
fusion. They are obviously aware of the Bussard approach. It would seem 
obvious that they would try to adjust their own setups to try to achieve the 
potentially greater efficiency. Also, if the EMC2 fusion [bussard team] 
achieves success than the university of Wisconsin fusion department should 
be immediately trying to replicate and build on the work.

Full article here:

http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/05/inertial-confinement-fusion-update.html


At the end of this lengthy MSNBC article is some information about the 
Bussard fusion process where researchers are building a new demonstration 
system WB7:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/974180.aspx