[Billy_bob_bob]

This sorta reminds me of the "Riggatron", a proposed cheap fusion device I read about in Omni magazine oh, around twenty years ago. The name Robert Broussard comes to mind, but I don't remember if he was involved or not. This will most likely also come to nothing. What is the current state of the art of fusion technology, anyway? Is it still twenty years away, like it was twenty years ago?

[RightWhale]

Is it still twenty years away

Forty years ago it was 40 years away. Now it is only 39 years away. There is insufficient data to determine whether the timeline curve of progress is linear or an incomplete elliptic integral of the second kind.