LPPFusion to initiate fusion, the company's desktop device exploits instability [Resources_Startups]

Since nuclear fusion's earliest days, the sun has served as the ultimate prototype. It's the closest continuously functioning large-scale fusion reactor, after all. Why not copy from the best? So tokamaks, stellarators, and laser ignition facilities all strive to create high-pressure and high-temperature plasmas that behave like microcosms of the sun's core. One of the biggest challenges these systems face is achieving the tight control they require over the plasma fuel they seek to fuse. But one New Jersey fusion startup company is taking a very different tack: "Guide the plasma's instability; don't fight it," says Eric Lerner, president and chief scientist at LPPFusion, based in Middlesex, N.J.