Polywell Fusion Not Quite Dead Yet

It looks like Dr. Bussard’s dream of practical and safe fusion power (including an enormously efficient space drive) via his Polywell design has not quite yet been abandoned. IMC2 has a new contract from the US Navy to investigate his designs further.

This must mean that some positive results came from the summer’s work, even though they have not yet been published.

One cannot overstate the positive effects this would have on the human condition were it to be successful. Practially unlimited energy from seawater and borax! No radiation, no nuclear waste, no air pollution or oil wars, voyages of mere weeks to all the planets of the solar system…