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There is a new post by mattman on The Polywell Blog called An Industry Emerges.

I enjoy reading your posts mattman. Keep up the good work!

mvanwink5, this is an quote from an old article from 2010, that claims that it took General Fusion four years to get external funding, so maybe we should not yet worry over that EMC2 has not succeeded in one years time. The quote by Doug Richardson shows the importance of solid measurements, publica...

crowberry, making milestones set for 2015 needed to justify additional funds is what is important for Helion and Tri Alpha, and these are critical money milestones. Helion's big money comes after those milestones, Tri Alpha has C2 milestones from their + first quarter 2015 testing which if not made...

jcoady wrote:The video of the presentation is now available for viewing.

http://www.pppl.gov/events/colloquium-m ... ral-fusion

Thanks jcoady! The work at GF is really impressive and it is good to see that they are doing steady progress.

No news on LM or EMC2's Polywell funding, which is not favorable for either, but for EMC2, which doesn't have ties to some money it could be a disaster, especially since whatever team they had is growing cold. So, despite GF's comment that they share the same problems, they are talking with their m...

General Fusion has a new blog post where they summarize some major events during 2014. It is worth reading and here is the link to the blog post: Fusion’s recent media storm is a teachable moment It’s been interesting to observe and, to some degree, be involved in the media coverage that accompanied...

The agenda of the Annual meeting of Fusion Power Associates and most of the slides have been published. :D Agenda Slides EMC2 and General Fusion attended, but the GF presentation is not (yet?) available. Polywell Fusion Electrostatic Fusion in a Magnetic Cusp - Jaeyoung Park, EMC2 There are nice pic...

Thanks for the summary mvanwink5! I could not watch the presentation today, so I have to wait until it appears on the web.
Nice to hear that GF is progressing well. Was any hint given when they plan to build the break even demonstration experiment?

FPDS update number P00023 has appeared on the website. This one contains no money. Date signed is September 10, 2014.

Dr. Michel Laberge of General Fusion will give a colloquium at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory on Magnetized Target Fusion work at General Fusion . The event is on December 18, 2014, 12:30pm to 2:00pm. General Fusion is working on compressing a Compact Torus in liquid metal using an acoustic...

Found this Helion Energy news: Helion Energy recently signed a lease with CalWest Industrial Properties for a 2,845 square foot Flex Tech space in Westpark (8555 154th Avenue NE, Redmond, WA). NAI Puget Sound Properties is pleased to work with such an innovative company and aid in their rapid growth...

Dr Parks slides are indeed very interesting to read as they also reveal WB-7 and WB-8 results. For the first time there is a credible result on neutron rates from a Polywell. The WB-6 was not instrumented well enough to have a reliable neutron rate measurement and then it broke down too early for pr...

The presentations, abstracts, participants and photos from the conference have now been published. There is a lot of interesting material, which I have not yet have time to read. Eventually the material will be posted here: https://fti.neep.wisc.edu/iec2014/conference_record , but currently it is av...

Dr Park is giving a another seminar. This time the seminar is at UCLA with the title Polywell Fusion - Electric Fusion in a Magnetic Cusp . Date: Friday, December 5, 2014 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm Physics and Astronomy Building (PAB) Room 4-330 Note the change of the title compared to the preprint. The tit...

Here is what David Kirtley from Helion Energy has to say on attracting VC funding. It is not easy as the time given is usually to short to explain anything in depth:
http://www.arpae-summit.com/Press/In-the-News#greenwire