NIF has nothing to do with Nukes. Zero, zilch, nadda. It doesn't even vaguely work anyway. Public funding for fusion research in the US and Europe is a waste o

NIF has nothing to do with Nukes. Zero, zilch, nadda. It doesn't even vaguely work anyway. Public funding for fusion research in the US and Europe is a waste of money; it's simply providing employment for past generations of fusion researchers, and pouring money down a hole on technologies which will never work. Tri-Alpha, on the other hand, has something new that might actually work. I went over the patents a few years ago (was going to do a blog on them; got busy); it's quite different from the approaches that get money via public funding, and unlike those approaches, it stands a chance of working.