I d like to think we re at the forefront. There is something called Magnegas I believe which is produced by arcing carbon under water. Another path is to sell the fuel cores to manufacturers on an OEM basis. Just as personal computers will not work without a microprocessor inside, Sonofusion power generators will not work without Impulse Devices patented fuel cores inside. Sonofusion power generators will use a more intense form of sonoluminescence.
Ultrasonic energy is used to expand and collapse tiny bubbles in a liquid.
When the bubbles collapse, they create a hot plasma for a short period of time. Recently it was learned that the plasma temperatures were close to those needed for fusion. Impulse Devices Inc. has filed patents on the techniques that will increase the peak temperatures to fusion levels. Fusion using acoustics is unique among all of the approaches to driving fusion to date in that it is a resonant system. All other approaches have a Q of 1, whereas Sonofusion WILL HAVE a Q of nearly 1000.