[Wonder Warthog]

Inertial confinement fusion, rather than "contained-plasma" (tokamak, Bussard Polywell, etc.). They're trying to do on a small scale what happens in a fusion bomb, only instead of triggering a fission bomb around a container of (insert your favorite fusion mix here) to get it compressed, they are focussing the energy of many, many, many laser beams onto a very small target that contains (insert your favorite fusion mix here).

The outer shell of the target explodes outward (and inward) under the impact of the lasers. The inward compression wave increases the temperature and pressure to above the fusion threshold. Fusion happens, and the innards of the small pellet now explode outwards, yielding excess energy.

NOT a practical route to routine energy production.

[InterceptPoint]

NOT a practical route to routine energy production.
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Too bad. I’d hoped for better.