Bussard's ramjet is too far fetched still. I meant more along the lines of http://www.emc2fusion.org/2006-9%20IAC%20Paper.pdf http://www.emc2fusion.org/2006-9%2

Bussard's ramjet is too far fetched still. I meant more along the lines of http://www.emc2fusion.org/2006-9%20IAC%20Paper.pdf http://www.emc2fusion.org/2006-9%20IAC%20Paper.pdf and http://www.ibiblio.org/lunar/school/InterStellar/Explorer_Class/Bussard_Fusion_systems.HTML http://www.ibiblio.org/lunar/school/InterStellar/Explorer_Cl... The EMC2 is (was) his corporation that gets [though very small compare to other causes government spends money on] real funding and making real progress today, just as we speaking :) though i'd not discount the Z-pinch (Sandia) approach and think that ultimately working system may be a combination of these 2 approaches. The Z-pinch, dense plasma focus and other similar dynamic (inertial) confinement approaches is, in principle, the Orion, only with very small "bombs".