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> And their team over at HPEPL / Georgia Institute of Technology wouldn’t have noticed that basic fact because…?

Who says they didn't notice? Nowhere did they say the heating was due to fusion. Read carefully what they wrote, not what they left unstated and allowed you to wishfully assume.

The heating would not be due to tiny amounts of boron, but rather due to the energetic protons slowing down, depositing energy. This would happen even in the absence of boron or of any nuclear reactions.



Quoting from their website:

“This fusion process, like an afterburner in a jet engine, transforms boron into high-energy carbon, which rapidly decays into three alpha particles. The result? A remarkable 50% improvement in thrust compared to our FireStar™ Foundation thruster.”

“We've witnessed fusion reactions occur in our lab and the result is a 50% jump in thrust performance”


That's not quite the quote we'd like to see.




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