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New Article on Science News and Two New Projects

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:36 pm
by Skipjack
The article has small bits of info on most of the current private fusion companies.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nuc ... r-startups
It also mentions a new startup from the UK:
http://firstlightfusion.com/about
And a new Airforce project with FRCs:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.js ... %3D4652525

Re: New Article on Science News and Two New Projects

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:56 pm
by Tom Ligon
Thanks ... I just got the issue but have not opened it. Guess what I'm going to do next?

Re: New Article on Science News and Two New Projects

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:26 pm
by DeltaV
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Re: New Article on Science News and Two New Projects

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:28 pm
by DeltaV
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Re: New Article on Science News and Two New Projects

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:28 pm
by DeltaV
Skipjack wrote:It also mentions a new startup from the UK:
http://firstlightfusion.com/about
Electromagnetic launcher fires a projectile that impacts a piston at the end of a gas-or-liquid-filled cylinder (with initial interior bubble), creating a planar shock wave that travels along the cylinder.

Reminds me of sonofusion, but with an axial instead of spherical symmetry. Ring vortex compression.

http://firstlightfusion.com/#17