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     Operating on a very limited budget with a few collaborators, LPP Fusion has increased the performance of its DPF technology step by step and is coming close to being able to create the conditions required for net energy generation.
     In 2016, LPP Fusion’s DPF device managed to achieve a plasma temperature of two billion eight hundred million degrees. This is the highest such temperature ever reached by any fusion device to date. This is over two hundred times hotter than the temperature at the center of the sun and fifteen times the project maximum temperature which can be reached by the ITER project.
   LPP Fusion has either matched or come close to results achieved by other fusion devices that cost hundreds of times more than the seven million dollars spent by LPP Fusion in the past decade. LPP Fusion intends to utilize hydrogen-boron instead of the popular deuterium-tritium fuel. The world-record temperatures already achieved provide the basis for moving forward with hydrogen-boron fuel.
     The hydrogen-boron fusion reaction is the Holy Grail of nuclear fusion research. It generates no radioactive waste and does not irradiate the components of the reactor. There is a virtually unlimited supply of fuel. And, best of all, it allows for the possibility of the direct conversion of the energy generated by the fusion process into electricity instead of following the complex process of generating steam to drive a steam turbine.
     It has been estimated that one gram of hydrogen-boron mixture could produce about as much energy as would be released by the burning of three tons of coal. The fusion experiments with at LPP Fusion have been carried out with deuterium so far. The first experiments with the hydrogen-boron fuel are planned for the end of this year.
     The LPP Fusion project is currently in the advanced research phase. The main task now is to progress from the already demonstrated production of big numbers of fusion reactions to achieving net energy output from the DPF device. If they are successful, the next stage will be the engineering phase. There is no guarantee that they will be successful, of course. But if they are successful, the payoff will be huge. 
     DPF-based hydrogen-boron fusion power plants would combine simplicity of construction and operation. The units would be small, and they would have low investment costs, low fuel costs and be intrinsically safe.
     With regard to commercial power production, the DPF device will be combined with a patented system that will allow the direct conversion of fusion energy into electricity.
     The LPP Fusion system would pulse at the rate of two hundred discharges per second and deliver an electric power output of five megawatts. A complete DPF power unit would only be a few yards across. This will make it easy to achieve any desired power output just by adding more units to the system. The technology is well suited to mass production of standardized units.
     Reasonable estimates suggest the DPF technology could reduce the cost of producing electricity by ten times or even more when compared with conventional and alternative energy technologies.
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