Quote Originally Posted by wiggin View Post
I am 100% sure that this will not work in a 10 year timeline.

It also doesn't sound like there's much real innovation here, just an amalgamation of old concepts. Doesn't mean it won't work - certainly the utter clusterfuck that is the ITER project is a failure because of poor management and bureaucracy, not necessarily because the science is bad. But they're at such an early stage of the process that I don't believe anything they say about timelines or efficiency/commercial applications. Fusion is always 10 or 20 years away.

Skunk Works has turned out some great stuff in its time, and if they're really looking into this I'd be excited to see what the results are at some point. But I've learned not to get too excited about something this vague and early.
Pretty much what I'm thinking, too. And even if it does work, that's still some steps away from actually being usable (JET achieved fusion 20 years ago..). That said, always good that more people are working on it, with different approaches