LPP Fusion received a new vacuum chamber with improved imaging capabilities, and assembly of beryllium electrodes into their experimental device is expected to begin within weeks, with experiments planned for September 2018.
Walter Rowntree and Laura Reynolds donated stocks worth approximately $330,000 to the Focus Fusion Society, with 85% allocated for a research grant to LPPFusion to support aneutronic fusion research.
LPP Fusion completed the first phase of laboratory upgrades, including installing a shielded Faraday cage to reduce electromagnetic noise for their fusion experiments involving beryllium electrodes.
LPPFusion's Wefunder equity crowdfunding campaign raised approximately $1.03 million from 451 investors, with $934,000 collected and $846,840 passed to the company after fees.
Analysis of photographic images taken of the early stages of the plasma focus device's pulse demonstrates that filaments form and then expand and merge, confirming the LPPFusion theory about the role of impurities in limiting fusion yields.
LPPFusion's Wefunder equity crowdfunding campaign will end on April 30, with $679,500 raised from 320 investors, representing about two-thirds of the $1 million goal.
A group of private fusion companies, including LPPFusion, formed a new alliance to promote fusion energy and seek government funding, involving organizations such as the American Fusion Project, the Fusion Industry Association, and the Fusion Consortium.
LPPFusion's crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder is in its final month, aiming to raise $1 million; as of late March 2018, it has raised over $640,000 from nearly 300 investors.
LPP Fusion is preparing for experiments involving beryllium electrodes in spring and plans to shift to hydrogen-boron fuel before the end of the year, including efforts to ensure safety and manage radioactive beryllium-7 production by using highly pure boron-11.
The LPP Fusion research team completed experiments with tungsten electrodes after upgrading their instruments, obtaining new insights into plasma behavior and achieving energy transfer results comparable to previous experiments, despite impurity challenges.
LPPFusion's equity crowdfunding on Wefunder has raised over $560,000 from more than 260 investors, surpassing half of the $1 million goal needed to fund further research into fusion energy.
LPP Fusion announced the launch of its equity crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder, aiming to raise between $400,000 and $1 million from up to 500 investors to support its fusion energy development.
LPPFusion, a small New Jersey-based research firm, published results in the journal Physics of Plasmas demonstrating a record ion energy equivalent to over 2.5 billion degrees Celsius, surpassing previous fusion experiments and indicating progress toward using hydrogen-boron fuel for clean energy.
The UC San Diego Center for Energy Research and LPPFusion announced a collaboration on October 2, 2017, to develop a dense plasma focus device for fusion energy, including experiments with hydrogen-boron fuel to produce charged particles and reduce radioactive waste.
LPPFusion received a beryllium cathode on August 18, 2017, which will be used in their dense plasma focus device to improve fusion yields by reducing impurity effects and plasma radiation damage.
LPP Fusion reported that their beryllium cathode did not pass internal inspection due to tiny nicks caused by automated machining errors; a fix involving custom machining is underway, which may delay its use but is expected to improve performance.
LPP Fusion's research team has made progress in cleaning oxides from electrodes of their experimental fusion device by increasing microwave power to raise plasma temperature, achieving up to 10,000 K, but has not yet eliminated all oxides, which is necessary to improve fusion yield.
Hardric Labs in Massachusetts reported that their machining of the new beryllium cathode for LPPFusion is nearing completion, with shipment expected in early March, marking an important milestone for the fusion project.
LPPFusion's team analyzed deposits on tungsten electrodes from their fusion experiments, confirming that most deposits were tungsten oxide and that oxygen was concentrated in erosion regions, supporting their hypotheses about electrode erosion mechanisms.
LPP Fusion's research team began reassembling their experimental fusion device, FF-1, in December 2016 to conduct new experiments using pure tungsten and a shorter electrode, including coating the tungsten anode with indium and upgrading their instruments.
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