Kent Brewster at Speculations.com reports that the Navy has extended the contract for Robert Bussard’s fusion research.
It’s two orders of magnitude below the $200 million Dr. Bussard says he needs to produce a full-scale 100mw system, but it’s a start.
Bussard presented his work at a November 2006 Google Tech Talk shortly after the Navy discontinued funding for all power related research projects. In the talk Bussard claimed to have created a working fusor and solved the fundamental science problems of fusion. For more details see this post.
Update
The rumor was false. Bussard’s contract was extended, but there is no additional funding. Fusor.net
