CHF is a lie. It’s a scam to the tune of hundreds of $billions. CHF corner-turn has been 50 years, and that has been 60 years ongoing; LENR corner-turn has been about 5 years for the last 3-4 years. CHF cost hundreds of $billions in TAX dollars, while LENR has cost something in the tens of $Millions, and it has been almost all private money. CHF IP is worthless; LENR IP sold for $20M a few weeks ago. CHF con artists publish breathless articles about something that took place over 1 billionth of a second; LENR demonstrations have lasted days, weeks, and even months.
Yup. If LENR scientists wanted to learn how to scam, they would take lessons from CHF frauds.
Here’s the problem with inertial confinement. Even if a pulse hit break even, it will be a while until the system can fire the next pulse. There is a lot of residual heat left in the neodynium glass rods used in the lasers, and that heat has to be dissipated before the next firing. There have also been incidents where a mere speck of dust on a glass rod shatters when the xenon flashtube goes off to excite the glass into lasing. There are also tremendous stresses on the capacitors used to fire the flashtubes, and capacitors have been known to explode (these are big capacitors).
The inertial confinement devices at Lawrence Livermore are more for testing and verifying weapons physics.