Motherboard features LPPF’s role in fusion race This story is part of LPPF’s November 4th, 2013 newsletter, available in PDF format here. Join the discussion at the Focus Fusion Society here. LPP’s Focus Fusion research has been featured in an article by Sam Roudman for Motherboard, which declares that “The Nuclear Fusion Arms Race is Underway.” Time’s Newsfeed noted the story as some of the day’s most fascinating news. The article also featured input from NextBigFuture’s Brian Wang, who has been consistently covering Focus Fusion and other innovative fusion approaches for many years: Despite scant funds, the potential economics of LPP reactors make them more appealing than other approaches. “If you have another clean way to produce [energy] at 2 to 10 cents per Kw/Hr, the world does not change,” says Brian Wang. In that range, the fusion energy would be cost competitive with other renewables, as [well] as fossil fuels. But it would not be cheap enough to prevent investment in new capacity for dirty energy. New coal plants and oil refineries would continue to be built. “Only [with] LPP, if they can get it down to .1 cent per Kw/Hr does the world change.”
