PatrickHenry
yeah I saw that article you posted.
All told I believe this makes for four approaches to fusion short of the BIG THING fusion reactor the Japanese and French are currently jawing over producing in their respective countries.
There's this table top fushion, there's Bubble Fusion, Cold Fusion (which has got some DOE support of late) and fusion set in an electromagnetic field some people at Columbia are trying to do.
Seems ACME was marketing something like that too.
I looked around for some info on that ITER project yesterday after I posted that article, and it seems that the final agreement is all but settled. The reactor will be in France, with Japan as a "privileged partner" in management and research contracts. The EU basically issued an ultimatum that they would go ahead regardless if final agreement weren't nailed down by this July. All that's left now is to hammer out the exact details of the the "privileged" partnership. (We're just one of the red-headed steppartners, who gets to pony up cash and hope something comes of it).