ResponsibleDurian

Recalling there was extensive optimization work to eliminate impurities (esp. eliminating tungsten oxides), but there's not been much novel data presented from subsequent firings. Do you expect to fire additional shots, and/or hope to surpass your own yield records w/ the improved Tungsten electrodes, before switching to Be? Also, when do you plan to start those experiments?

Thanks! Appreciate your hard work and transparency, best of luck w/ beryllium electrode experiments.

If DPF works as hoped, how confident are you in the technologies for direct conversion of energy output (ion beam & x-rays) to electricity? Are there extant proofs-of-principle for these methods, and do they demonstrate the efficiency of conversion you'd need to both re-power subsequent shots of DPF & generate surplus?