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2011

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December

• FoFu-1 x-rays show effectiveness of Axial Field Coil

• Four Billion Degree Electrons!

• LPP December 28, 2011 report

• 2011 Year in Review

• Focus Fusion Society Introduces the Fusion Energy League

November

• Latest FF-1 tweaking aims to eliminate small tilts

• Automation of data collection allows more shots, faster progress

• MSNBC’s Cosmic Log reports on LPP’s progress

• LPP November 23, 2011 report

• FF-1’s repeatability improves six-fold, with fusion yield staying within 3%

• LPP granted its first foreign patent by Australia

• LPP at Rutgers with the Woz

• General Fusion on NPR

October

• FF-1 fires 8 capacitors at 40 kV

• FF-1 achieves new personal best fusion yields, shows rapid scaling

• LPP’s Lerner speaks on “After Fukushima” Panel at NJ Clean Tech Summit

• LPP October 17, 2011 report

September

• Focus Fusion Needs a Laptop

• Half-Axed Fusion Program

• Senate Slashes Fusion Budget

• Paradoxical Fusion Commandments

• FF-1 upgrade reassembly complete

• Complete set of 12 new switches

• LPP August 11, 2011 report

• Renewable Energy World Reports on Focus Fusion research

August

• Notice of Annual Meeting September 24, 2011

• Get Involved

• Mission Statement

July

• Sustained Fire

• LPP on the same beam with larger DPF in Warsaw

• In the race for fusion energy, lightning thunders over lasers

• LPP July 8, 2011 report

• Peak Superman

June

• Quest for Fusion Film Contest NOW!

• Steven Cowley:  Resource vs. Knowledge based energy

• Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design

• Fusion or Eating Insects?

• Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

• Aneutronic Jewelry

• Fusion Consumer Products Campaign

• Energy League and Brackets Campaign

• Exodus to the Virtual World:  How Online Fun is changing Reality

• Our Apps and Games Campaign

• Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

• Jane McGonigal on how games can change the world

• Alternatives to Reality

• Man’s Reach

• Announcing New Board of Directors

• My Water’s on Fire Tonight

• FF-1 main insulator improvements underway

• Symmetry Solutions to Support Greater Fusion Yield

• LPP formally organizes Board of Advisors

• Microbeam scars bolster 100-micron radius of plasmoids

• LPP June 2, 2011 report

May

• New record beams bode well for applications

• Increased repeatability for science, commercialization

• Successful 45kV firing sets stage for key fusion tests

• LPP May 19, 2011 report

• T. Joseph Nkansah-Mahaney

• Ben Ferris

• Arif Basha

• Ignas Galvelis

• John Shellito

• NYC Focus Fusion Meetup June 1, 2011

• ICC Workshops Abstract Deadline June 10

• Linda Schade

April

• New 3D Fusion Poster

• Duke Researchers Offer insight into Aneutronic fusion

March

• Modernist Cuisine

• 3.14 Happy Pi Day

• Earthquake v. powerplant

• New radioactive isotope diagnostics set up

• FF-1 shows its true color—violet!

• First sample of new spark plugs produced

• X-scan Spinoff Feasibility

• Join the Focus Fusion Society

February

• Plasma Rockets:  Can we make it to Mars?

• The Electric Grid

• What if you were trapped in the chamber with FoFu-1 during a shot?

• LPPX Wishlist - Donate Equipment!

• Secretary Chu’s FY 2012 Budget Briefing

• LPP and Warsaw Results

• Anisotropy measurements as evidence for plasmoid

• A high resolution plasmoid image

• High energy efficiency demonstrated by first ion beam measurement

• LPP February 7, 2011 report

• ASP White Paper:  Fusion as an opportunity for American Leadership and Security

• Can we leverage this enthusiasm for fusion?

• LPP 2011:  New Year’s Summary

• Focus fusion movie with real ICCD images released

• Magneto-Inertial Fusion and Rail Gun Fun at HyperV

• Commencing Ruggedization

January

• JOFE accepts LPP article for publication

• EMC2

• 1984 Predictability

• Morphing towards a fusion future

• Magnetized Target Fusion

• Fusion Power Associates 2010 Annual Meeting

• Ben Franklin tours the lab

• Why don’t electrons crash into protons?