benf2

In 2013 you initiated a letter writing campaign to the US Senate committee on Energy posing these questions: 1. Is the current 30-year-old concentration of the US fusion energy program on the tokamak device and on deuterium-tritium fuels too narrow to lead to economical fusion energy? 2.Should the US fusion energy program be redirected, by legislation if necessary, to fund a broader range of fusion devices, in particular those capable of using aneutronic fuels, which if successful could lead to fusion energy that is cheaper than any existing energy sources? Do you think we should continue writing letters to the committee members in support of fusion and alternative fusion concepts?

I’ve recently read an article (Phys.org) on the new satellite images of lightning from thunderstorms, which are generating sprites and even sometimes fusion reactions out into space. Is the research revealing any useful new information about magnetic fields or particle beam formation?