elernerfusion

Cheap, clean, unlimited energy should we expect! Focus fusion, if we develop it successfully, will provide energy 10 times cheaper than any existing source.

Our first goal is to get to net energy. We hope to do this in the next set of experiments with beryllium electrodes and pB11 fuel. Then we need a much larger development project to get a prototype generator ready for manufacture.

Our effort certainly will not take decades. We will know very soon, within 12-18 months, if we can reach net energy in the lab. If we get adequate funding, around $100 million, development to a commercial prototype should take about three years after that. Fission can't provide cheap energy nor could it fully replace fossil. Focus Fusion can do both.

In theory yes. But in reality, I think it will tough to raise even $100 million quickly--that will be the bottleneck. So three years would be good.

We may still get close--the last few days are generally good. We will probably not hire another physicist, so that will slow us down a bit. But we still think we will have enough money to do the next experiment.