>HB11 Energy’s research demonstrated that its hydrogen-boron energy technology is now four orders of magnitude away from achieving net energy gain when catalyze

>HB11 Energy’s research demonstrated that its hydrogen-boron energy technology is now four orders of magnitude away from achieving net energy gain when catalyzed by a laser the accelerator based fusion - like accelerating protons into a solid target - is probably among the easiest ways to get some fusion. Improving it is though a completely different thing - as even the solid targets are really mostly space between the atoms (and thus the overwhelming majority of the incoming protons lose the energy by heating the target instead of hitting the target's atoms), the density of the target to achieve break even should be on the scale of like 10x density of lead. The only known ways to get such matter densities is by compressing the matter by something like X-rays of the power comparable to that of the nuke explosion generated X-rays (like for example is done in Sandia Z-machine or NIF lasers).