I read some interesting work about picosecond laser driven pB11 fusion [0]. There doesn't seem to be a huge amount of research into picosecond lasers, but it strikes me as the logical step past NIF's work. What are your thoughts on this?
Yes, I've read about Heinrich Hora's approach to fusion. I'm not enough of an expert on this to say whether it's bogus or not. Guess the proof is in the pudding if they build a machine to demonstrate that these theoretical models actually work.
[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/laser-and-particle-b...