Focus Fusion News, but here's the real scoop

h/t Next Big Future

Note the coil on the left.  The positively charged alpha particles induced current through the coil.  If you look closely, you can see the blue colored alpha particle beam emerge from the bright cloud of light and enter the coil.

Speculation alert:  I'm going off a tangent here because I like this idea so much.

Actually, the alpha particle has mass and is traveling at a high velocity.  This makes it potentially useful as a reaction mass in a rocket.  I've pointed that out before, but as you can see below, the Focus Fusion folks are focusing on commercial applications.  They'll run into incumbents who will fight them for market share.  Barriers to entry will be high.  But nobody has a comparable rocket engine to this.  If that path were to be taken, they'd have no incumbents to compete against.

The small scale is handy for space applications

Seems like this can be funded easily- why not?