The other thing to note is that it's small. I believe WB6 was roughly the size of your average CRT monitor.
The estimated cost for a full scale polywell is ~$100 million, less than 1/100th of ITER's estimated costs. It has the potential for commercial fusion energy by 2020, not by 2050 like ITER. This, of course, is assuming the larger scale Polywell designs will break even with WB8.
Thank you, I forgot to mention that. Assuming the polywell design works as hoped, it is likely to be much smaller and cheaper for the same output than other fusion reactor designs.
I've been interested for a while in the potential of IEC-type reactors, so I'm really looking forward to the results of this new work.
The estimated cost for a full scale polywell is ~$100 million, less than 1/100th of ITER's estimated costs. It has the potential for commercial fusion energy by 2020, not by 2050 like ITER. This, of course, is assuming the larger scale Polywell designs will break even with WB8.