Too late. Cold fusion machines are now working everywhere. /s
energy too cheap to meter..
So-called "cold fusion" (really Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions or LENR) has promise, too, but probably will not scale very well.
Don't get too excited about this. Even if it works (REAL TEST in 2013) slightly better than break even energy isn't enough, You have to take into account the thermodynamics of converting heat into electricity which runs at about 33% in a thermal power plant, so you have to generate about three times the energy required to initiate the fusion just to break even on the electric bill. I've been keep up with the literature on fusion energy generation since the middle 60's and the breakthrough has always been just around the corner.
Reusablity seems to be what Sandia was missing.
Previously they used Tungsten threads instead of Be cylinders. The Tungsten was vaporized on each firing.
In theory with multiple reactors, it would run like a very large pulse reactor, one firing while the rest were re-loaded.
Very interesting!
Now when my 8-year-old son asks what a “MILF” is, I can tell him “Magnetized Inertial Linear Fusion.”
“This is actually nuclear weapons research, but if it works for energy production, so much the better.”
Yes, of course. Under pressure to cite/publish muslim success stories so that even Freepers will be excited......
“You didn’t build that”
I don’t think so. They are trying to duplicate what happens in a Teller-Ulam thermonuclear device, without the fission (a-bomb) trigger... We can already do this sort of reaction, just not real controlled and at this small scale...
My understanding was that, under the Emperor’s green-energy dictates, they were going to use a wind-farm output to trigger the actual fusion process.