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Apologies if this already was noticed -- the news is a month old.

"Paul Koloc, 75, an engineering physicist who had promoted and patented new technologies as a source of fusion energy for electricity and the powering of spacecraft, died Feb. 17 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring." [Washington Post]

He was working on hydrogen-boron plasma fusion at least until 2004. His websites (at least at one time, based on his old signature block) included:

plasmak.com
neoteric-research.org
prometheus2.net

One of his patents...

http://www.google.com/patents/US4891180

I only met him once, when he came to visit Dr. Bussard's Manassas Park lab. Bussard was careful telling him too much, on account of Dr. Koloc being one of the few people Bussard thought might have a workable alternative.

I liked Koloc's ideas on ball lightning. I've never seen a more reasonable explanation, especially an aspect of the phenomenon my sisters witnessed first-hand, the ability to pass thru glass. For that to happen, ball lightning must almost certainly be a magnetic phenomenon, essentially a self-forming plasmak.