Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?

Re:Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear ... by pas on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:51PM (#22385111)

Is there any description of how the "hit a capacity coil with a laser to generate a magnetic field" thing works?

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c... I found this overview a bit confusing and sort of low quality, but at least it references a lot of papers. (But haven't started hunting down any of them.)

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Re:Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear ... by grogers on Saturday February 22, 2020 @05:43AM (#22390329)

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01170 ehich is the first linked paper in that section explains it well. The laser fires through the hole and ablates material from the back disc. The electrons from the created plasma reach the other side of the disc first before the ions because they are lighter, causing a buildup of negative charge on the other side. This charge differential drives a current between the two plates, which creates a magnetic field inside the coil.

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