New Fusion Concept

Yeah, I've noticed that a lot of bold claims usually means they are looking for more funding.

Like being transparent?

“powering the planet for more than 100,000 years“

Kinda short sighted, innit?

Interesting bit of research. However, as the Nature Communications paper points out, thermonuclear fusion with these elements occurs at temperatures 30 time higher than with deuterium-tritium reactions. Getting to a net Q>1 (power production threshold) with this fusion product will be much more difficult. Still, research always brings knowledge. Sometimes that knowledge is nope, that's not going to work.

Blazing new trails into the unknown is how progress happens.

A piece of great news indeed!

Perhaps this exemplifies theory of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright, which argues that biological evolution and cultural evolution are shaped and directed first and foremost by "non-zero-sumness" i.e., the prospect of creating new interactions that are not zero-sum

Cleaner but with much higher ignition temperature. Fusion has been demonstrated, but it's a long way from breakeven. Fast-forward to 5:40.

Seemed to me that they didn't really say a lot. Lots of energy in with magnetic confinement and a particle accelerator. But they didn't say how much out. Not yet peer-reviewed. I didn't see where they said what reaction was involved except H to B, but both have many isotopes. We need more info.

HB11 Energy is doing something similar, Hydrogen-Boron 11 fusion, not by plasma confinement but by a non-thermal approach of accelerating protons (hydrogen nuclei) into a stationary boron target, resulting in 3 He⁺⁺ particles. This technique sidesteps the problems of extremely high temperature plasma confinement and the inefficiencies of thermal conversion.

"The science behind HB11 Energy’s solution

HB11 Energy’s approach has been the topic of a developing field of research pioneered by Prof. Heinrich Hora. Click here for the list of our scientific papers.

HB11’s concept is radically different to all current commercial fusion approaches and will not share any of the major challenges that have held back DT (deuterium and tritium) fusion. As it is also drastically simpler we expect that scientific development will be cheaper and much faster than other fusion approaches.

From a scientific standpoint, the few experiments that have been performed on HB11 laser fusion have demonstrated landmark results and have placed HB11’s approach as the most likely candidate to realise safe, practical and economically viable energy generation."

https://hb11.energy/how-it-works/

Somebody, somewhere, using some combination of isotopes will eventually crack this nut and bring fusion power to light. (Sorry, but I couldn't avoid that pun.) I don't expect the process will be completely benign but until this comes out of a laboratory environment most of the headaches will probably not be known.