(shrugs, peels banana).
Those âKey Next-stepsâ are only hard if you approach from the wrong direction. Conventional laser ICF is the wrong way. Itâs hard, like trying to solve a Rubikâs cube while wearing oven mitts. BSF is the right way. Itâs easy, like shooting a marble into a funnelâitâs going to hit the bottom no matter how bad your aim is.
Letâs cover Tynanâs journey, step-by-step:
laser diode prices are dropping, like over-ripe coconuts, the same way chips and solar prices fell. And, with multiâchamber fusion plants, the laser can be kept popping instead of napping. So the cost gets spread, like creamy peanut butter, across all of the chambers. Mash those thoughts together with a few bananas and you get a delicious, practical, budget-friendly laser system.
Targets donât have to be gold-plated diamond idols costing $100,000 a pop. Bubbles are free. Just puff the fuel into the FLiBe andâpoofâinstant target. Easy, affordable, unlimitted supply. 
Mainstream guys are forever fretty about their poor metal walls getting brittle, bloated, and cranky. BSF ignites fusion in a centrally located blast zone, surrounded by a thick liquid shield. Nothing gets through, and itâs self-healing! Itâll last hundreds of years while the other guys are out there swapping parts every six months.
What kind of laser system can track & hit â within 10 microns â distant targets traveling 200 mph? The mainstream guys are stumped. Meanwhile, BSF yawns⌠no need to aim, âItâs impossible to miss!â For details, see: Archimedean Spiral Detector ⌠Positioning speed & accuracy ⌠Triggering the laser ⌠GPT 5.2âs assessment of BSF ⌠How sensitive is BSF to fuel misalignment?
BSFâs method of âvolume ignitionâ starts with a large, instability-resistant, high-yield plasma target. Due to Bremsstrahlung trapping and alpha-heating, low-temperature ignition makes extremely high gains possible. Unlike ICF plasmas, which rapidly explode into a vacuum, a BSF plasma diffuses slowly into the FLiBe. For more details, see: DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS: how bubble size & density influence yield?
Tritium problem? Pfft â piece of cake! The only thing to worry about is over-production. BSFâs contact-blanket, no enrichment needed, cruises along with a TBR > 1.2, easily out-breeding most other blanket designs. And, since FLiBe keeps circulating, tritium recovery is continuous and fast, with fewer radioactive decays to nibble away at stocks.
The laser of an ICF power plant is a money-sponge â mostly sitting around doing nothing. But pack a bunch of fusion chambers around one and suddenly the cost flips: the chambers start doing the heavy lifting. And we already know how to build the cheapest chambers in the jungle â contact blankets all the way down. Full speed! Maximum punch! With a pricetag based on a design that uses much less material (~1%) than a standoff blanket, youâre squeezing the most juice from the least bananas.