{"id":8109,"date":"2014-06-14T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T19:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8109"},"modified":"2014-06-14T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T19:29:33","slug":"sci-tech-more-on-polywell-fusion-focus-fusion-crowd-funding-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8109","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: More on Polywell fusion + Focus Fusion crowd-funding update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Boyle gives some additional details about the Navy funded Polywell fusion power project (see post here<\/a>) that recently published a paper on progress they have made :\u00a0Low-Cost Fusion Project Steps Out of the Shadows and Looks for Money – NBC News.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Navy funding is running out and they are now looking for private funding. This is not out of the question. General Fusion<\/a> in Canada has raised a considerable amount of money from Jeff Bezos and others. And secretive Tri-Alpha Energy<\/a> has raised money from Paul Allen another others as well. (Others is a very rich guy…)<\/p>\n

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Another promising fusion power approach that I’ve mentioned here several times (e.g. see here<\/a> and here<\/a>) \u00a0is the dense focus fusion concept, which LPP Power<\/a>\u00a0in New Jersey is pursuing. Their crowdfunding campaign has raised $120,000 towards a\u00a0$200,000 goal. They just got a 20 day extension to try to reach the full amount:\u00a0FOCUS FUSION: emPOWERtheWORLD\u00a0-Indiegogo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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One might have the wacky\u00a0idea that the Department of Energy would grant some modest funding to these high risk but high pay-off fusion power projects. However, most all of DOE’s fusion funding goes directly or indirectly to the ITER<\/a> tokamak project, which will, at best, provide a pay-off in 30 or 40 years.<\/p>\n

This is typical in science and engineering programs, the biggest project gets bigger and bigger as its influence and industry\/political ties multiply with its spending. \u00a0See, for example,\u00a0SLS\/Orion in NASA’s HSF program and James Webb Space Telescope in NASA’s\u00a0science outlays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Boyle gives some additional details about the Navy funded Polywell fusion power project (see post here) that recently published a paper on progress they have made :\u00a0Low-Cost Fusion Project Steps Out of the Shadows and Looks for Money – NBC News.com. The Navy funding is running out and they are now looking for private … Continue reading Sci-Tech: More on Polywell fusion + Focus Fusion crowd-funding update<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-26N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8044,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8044","url_meta":{"origin":8109,"position":0},"title":"Sci-Tech: Polywell fusion project makes progress","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years I've posted several times about \u00a0the\u00a0Polywell\u00a0fusion power concept\u00a0invented by the late\u00a0Robert W. 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