This actually does sound interesting- if it works out as predicted:
"Computational Studies Suggest that Laser Ignition of Aneutronic Fusion is Only Ten Times More Difficult than Deuterium-Tritium Fusion and Not One Hundred Thousand Times Tougher"
Of course, it is still to early to say anything, but now this thing might at least hypotheticaly be able to make a useful fusion powerplant.The high energy laser pulses can be used to create a plasma block that generates a high density ion beam, which ignites the fuel without it needing to be compressed, explains Hora. Without compression, much lower energy demands than previously thought are needed. 'It was a surprise when we used hydrogen-boron instead of deuterium-tritium. It was not 100 000 times more difficult, it was only ten times,' says Hora.