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[sam]

What's the plasma configuration of the machine? I think there's a research group at U of Washington working on merging spheromaks which create a field reversed configuration. Is this a spinoff of that group?

edit: looks like it is - this is the group: https://www.aa.washington.edu/research/plasmaDynamics/phdx.h...

[dkirtley → sam]

Yes! Prof. John Slough is the Chief Scientist at Helion and the inventor of the Fusion Engine. UW has been leading the field of 'alternates' fusion for decades. Our 'About Us' page has a short blurb: http://www.helionenergy.com/

[tim333 → dkirtley]

There's a video of him talking about his earlier fusion rocket engine prototype http://on.aol.com/video/peripheral-vision-003--professor-joh...