Executive Summary Impulse Devices, Inc. is developing a new inertial confinement fusion (ICF) technology with the potential to economically serve all end-use energy markets worldwide. We have initiated the promotion of this new fusion approach in the research community. IDI is established with a sustainable competitive advantage as a private corporation in fusion electric power generation. Defensible aspects of the business model have created high barriers to market entry, and significant first-mover advantage. Based on current projections and goals set by Impulse Devices, the technology would produce usable energy at cost levels far lower than all known competing technologies either currently available or projected to be available. Correspondingly, the adoption throughout the energy marketplace would be limited only by restrictions on its supply or by the failure to convert potential buyers motivated primarily by non-economic factors. The technology development focus is based upon inertially confining a plasma in liquids using acoustics, and is most closely related to the laser inertial confinement fusion approaches being developed at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories. Using acoustics in place of lasers reduce the cost and complexity of fusion power plants. IDI seeks to develop the technology in collaboration with the National Laboratories such as Los Alamos, using Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA). With a business model based on distinctly competitive attributes, IDI has established itself as the leader in the Acoustic ICF based fusion technology and is now positioned for rapid growth and market leadership.
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