ratdragon

I'm rooting for LPP Fusion https://lppfusion.com/ it is a "garage" startup but their approach of using plama instability instead of trying to stabilize it (and the fact they're very close already to net gain https://lppfusion.com/investing-in-lppfusion/our-plan-to-net...) sure sounds great. Garage sized 5MW aneutronic pb11 fusion reactor with direct-to-electricity conversion sure sounds like something we all can use :)

What does HN crowd think of companies like hb11 or lppfusion which try to construct much smaller but still powerful (lpp plans for 5MW, relatively small, reactor. They also want to use a different fuel that produces very little neutrons, thus very low radiocativity. And moreover they do not need thermal part as electricity is generated by directly collecting alpha particles (and some Xrays IIRC). It _feels_ to me like ITER is inheritance from old times - trying to build the reactor the way we always did (i.e. thermal; and also using the "easiest" to ignite fuel - but that produces a lot of radiocativity compared to hB11 fuel). As someone pointed out here in comments, there are already better magnets than those used in ITER even now. Don't get me wrong, it would be sooo cool if ITER succeeded and started fusion energy generation, but it is just taking too long.

  https://www.hb11.energy/our-story https://lppfusion.com/technology/fusion-energy-generator/

There's another similar project brewing in suckless universe: https://surf.suckless.org/ I haven't tried that one. I've used UZBL a lot some years ago and it was awesome.