In a breakthrough in the effort to achieve controlled fusion energy, a research team at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. (LPP) in Middlesex, NJ, announced that they have demonstrated the confinement of ions with energies in excess of 100 keV (the equivalent of a temperature of over 1 billion degrees C) in a dense plasma. They achieved this using a compact fusion device called a dense plasma focus (DPF), which fits into a small room and confines the plasma with powerful magnetic fields produced by the currents in the plasma itself. Reaching energies over 100 keV is important in achieving a long-sought goal of fusion research--to burn hydrogen-boron fuel. Hydrogen-boron, (also known by its technical abbreviation, pB11) is considered the ideal fusion fuel, since it produces energy in the form of charged particles that can be directly converted to electricity. This could dramatically cut the cost of electricity generation and eliminate all production of radioactive waste.An important breakthrough fusion would be. In time, all nuclear reactors would not be needed and any country wanting one would only be interested in a nuclear weapon closing that loophole. Oil would be not needed in large quantities and the financing of the Middle East and it's corrupt dictators would be severely cut. Coal mining would not be needed anymore. (I would put no CO2 in here but that "theory" is such bullshit it doesn't rate) Space travel would be cheaper and faster since ships could carry better and lighter engines with less fuel weight. Cheap, abundant and safe energy would be almost as civilization changing as the wheel.
