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When the orthodoxy says “it can’t be done,” someone inevitably proves them wrong—but only if they’re willing to fail fast, think sideways, and trust the data over doctrine.
There’s a peculiar comfort in impossibility. When experts across an entire field agree that something fundamentally cannot work, we get to stop worrying about it. The case is closed. The limits are real. We can move on to problems that might actually have solutions.
This is precisely the psychological space that electrostatic fusion occupied for decades in the minds of plasma physicists. Not controversial, not debatable—simply impossible. The math was clear: space charge limits would prevent sufficient density, and Coulomb collisions would drain energy 25 times faster than fusion could release it. Building a small fusion reactor using electrostatic confinement wasn’t just hard; it violated basic principles.
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Avalanche Energy
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