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This is the future of energy - nothing else comes close.

I got excited about it this spring, and I don't understand why this isn't getting more attention and funding. This is all coming from MIT, not the ramblings of some random crank:

http://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/whyte.html

There is also an excellent presentation from one of the post docs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

The approach and physics are well established. This seems like the quickest way to break the net power gain barrier with the lowest risk and lowest cost today and will allow individual labs and entrepreneurs to iterate on the implementation and engineering much more rapidly.