I watched this farily good show about the promise of Fusion Power and what research is going on to help bring us this energy source that will change the world. The covered the two methods that are getting the most funding but failed to cover the one method that might actually work and work a whole lot sooner then we think. The late Dr. Robert Bussard (name sound familiar?) and s team at Energy / Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2 is a non-profit corporation) have for the last 14 years been working on a method called Inertial Electrostatic Confinment fusion. Their device (called Polywell fusor) uses magnetic fields to confine electrons in a quasi-spherical region to make a highly negatively charged electric field to confine the positivly charged hydrogen/boron fuel. I won't go in to details here, you can read about it at:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell[/url]
[url]http://www.emc2fusion.org/[.url]

I'm upset that this research was not covered by the show's producers even though it currently shows the most promise out of all the methods being researched to produce fusion power.