https://inertia.com/
That's interesting, scaling up the NIF idea to commercial levels.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:57 -0700, john larkin wrote:
https://inertia.com/
That's interesting, scaling up the NIF idea to commercial levels.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe
Electronics
Another scam looking for suckers to "invest" their money.
Actual research with a shot at achieving useful results:
https://www.pppl.gov/nstx-u
This is a proof of concept demo with lossy copper magnets and a 2 minute >inertial stored energy power supply, making it far faster to build and
test than the same topology with the superconducting magnets which will
be
required to achieve wall-plug break even.
No one has suggested even a vague concept of how high power lasers could
be made efficient enough to make inertial confinement useful for energy >production.
Glen
https://inertia.com/
That's interesting, scaling up the NIF idea to commercial levels.
John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:53:35 GMT, Glen Walpert <nospam@null.void>wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:57 -0700, john larkin wrote:
https://inertia.com/
That's interesting, scaling up the NIF idea to commercial levels.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe
Electronics
Another scam looking for suckers to "invest" their money.
Actual research with a shot at achieving useful results:
https://www.pppl.gov/nstx-u
This is a proof of concept demo with lossy copper magnets and a 2 minute >>inertial stored energy power supply, making it far faster to build and >>test than the same topology with the superconducting magnets which will
be
required to achieve wall-plug break even.
No one has suggested even a vague concept of how high power lasers could >>be made efficient enough to make inertial confinement useful for energy >>production.
Glen
Nature seems unwilling to let us make fusion work. Every scheme fails
for some sneaky reason.
Lots of people are trying, mostly with plasmas.
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:53:35 GMT, Glen Walpert <nospam@null.void>wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:57 -0700, john larkin wrote:
https://inertia.com/
That's interesting, scaling up the NIF idea to commercial levels.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe
Electronics
Another scam looking for suckers to "invest" their money.
Actual research with a shot at achieving useful results:
https://www.pppl.gov/nstx-u
This is a proof of concept demo with lossy copper magnets and a 2 minute >>>inertial stored energy power supply, making it far faster to build and >>>test than the same topology with the superconducting magnets which will >>>be
required to achieve wall-plug break even.
No one has suggested even a vague concept of how high power lasers could >>>be made efficient enough to make inertial confinement useful for energy >>>production.
Glen
Nature seems unwilling to let us make fusion work. Every scheme fails
for some sneaky reason.
Lots of people are trying, mostly with plasmas.
Fusion is simple, desktop
Farnsworth FUSOR
https://www.rexresearch.com/farnsworth/fusor.htm
I observed that effect on the desktop years ago.
But getting power from it is impossible
You cannot get more energy out of a spring than you put in compressing it!
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:57 -0700, john larkin wrote:
https://inertia.com/
That's interesting, scaling up the NIF idea to commercial levels.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe
Electronics
Another scam looking for suckers to "invest" their money.
Actual research with a shot at achieving useful results:
https://www.pppl.gov/nstx-u
This is a proof of concept demo with lossy copper magnets and a 2 minute inertial stored energy power supply, making it far faster to build and
test than the same topology with the superconducting magnets which will
be
required to achieve wall-plug break even.
No one has suggested even a vague concept of how high power lasers could
be made efficient enough to make inertial confinement useful for energy production.
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:09:31 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>wrote:
john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:53:35 GMT, Glen Walpert <nospam@null.void>wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:57 -0700, john larkin wrote:
https://inertia.com/
That's interesting, scaling up the NIF idea to commercial levels.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe
Electronics
Another scam looking for suckers to "invest" their money.
Actual research with a shot at achieving useful results:
https://www.pppl.gov/nstx-u
This is a proof of concept demo with lossy copper magnets and a 2 minute >>>>inertial stored energy power supply, making it far faster to build and >>>>test than the same topology with the superconducting magnets which will >>>>be
required to achieve wall-plug break even.
No one has suggested even a vague concept of how high power lasers could >>>>be made efficient enough to make inertial confinement useful for energy >>>>production.
Glen
Nature seems unwilling to let us make fusion work. Every scheme fails
for some sneaky reason.
Lots of people are trying, mostly with plasmas.
Fusion is simple, desktop
Farnsworth FUSOR
https://www.rexresearch.com/farnsworth/fusor.htm
I observed that effect on the desktop years ago.
But getting power from it is impossible
You cannot get more energy out of a spring than you put in compressing it!
A hydrogen bomb is not a spring.
On 14/04/2026 9:53 am, Glen Walpert wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:57 -0700, john larkin wrote:
https://inertia.com/
That's interesting, scaling up the NIF idea to commercial levels.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe
Electronics
Another scam looking for suckers to "invest" their money.
Actual research with a shot at achieving useful results:
https://www.pppl.gov/nstx-u
This is a proof of concept demo with lossy copper magnets and a 2
minute inertial stored energy power supply, making it far faster to
build and test than the same topology with the superconducting magnets
which will be required to achieve wall-plug break even.
No one has suggested even a vague concept of how high power lasers
could be made efficient enough to make inertial confinement useful for
energy production.
That's not actually true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HB11_Energy
definitely has such a scheme. It has fused hydrogen and boron nuclei
which has the advantage of not producing neutrons as a by-product.
The chirped laser pulses they use are unique - if tricky to produce -
but they are working on scaling up the process to a degree that can make money as well as.
Boron has an atomic number of five so five protons and an atomic weight
of 10.8, which is to say that 80.1% of it is B-11 and the other 19.9%
B-10. Hitting the B-11 nucleus hard with with a proton give you three
alpha particles - which accounts for the six protons and six neutrons in
He-4 and releases quite a lot of energy.
On Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:23:47 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:
On 14/04/2026 9:53 am, Glen Walpert wrote:
On Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:57 -0700, john larkin wrote:
https://inertia.com/
That's interesting, scaling up the NIF idea to commercial levels.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe
Electronics
Another scam looking for suckers to "invest" their money.
Actual research with a shot at achieving useful results:
https://www.pppl.gov/nstx-u
This is a proof of concept demo with lossy copper magnets and a 2
minute inertial stored energy power supply, making it far faster to
build and test than the same topology with the superconducting magnets
which will be required to achieve wall-plug break even.
No one has suggested even a vague concept of how high power lasers
could be made efficient enough to make inertial confinement useful for
energy production.
That's not actually true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HB11_Energy
definitely has such a scheme. It has fused hydrogen and boron nuclei
which has the advantage of not producing neutrons as a by-product.
Interesting technique, but not inertial confinement, and still subject to
the same laser efficiency issues as inertial confinement. No meaningful
test data turned up in my search.
The chirped laser pulses they use are unique - if tricky to produce -
but they are working on scaling up the process to a degree that can make
money as well as.
Not unique, widely used since invented in 1985:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirped_pulse_amplification
Also used in inertial confinement research, eg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_for_Laser_Energetics
Boron has an atomic number of five so five protons and an atomic weight
of 10.8, which is to say that 80.1% of it is B-11 and the other 19.9%
B-10. Hitting the B-11 nucleus hard with with a proton give you three
alpha particles - which accounts for the six protons and six neutrons in
He-4 and releases quite a lot of energy.
Seems to be about as far along as inertial confinement was in 1980.
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