Thanks Zach Weiner for another cool pro-fusion cartoon!

Our first Fusion Film contest is officially open!  Create a fusion themed short with the guidelines in this announcement video, and you have a chance at winning a prize and prestige - as well as advancing fusion!

aka “The Fracking Song”

More reasons to fund fusion.

Check out Nova Science Now’s program on Plasma Rockets. 

Check out the 9 minute movie on the Electric Grid with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Nova Science Now.

LPP worked together with the Focus Fusion Society to compile images from the experiment’s high-speed camera into an overall movie of what is happening when Focus Fusion-1 fires its capacitor bank.

For those of us struggling to build the bridge to fusion, Neil deGrasse Tyson has some pointers. 

In his appearance on the Daily Show on Tuesday, he said that explorers on the frontier of science sometimes need to make stuff up to advance research. 

He wasn’t advocating faking science.  And after watching the special, it’s also clear he wasn’t advocating painting a rosy picture.  The “made up stuff” on the show includes a relentless visualization of all the things that can go wrong in space.  How can we apply this to the fusion endeavor?

Why is fusion underfunded? 

Does it have something to do with a study that shows people contribute less to something when the analytical part of their mind is activated?

If the study is right, then public support for fusion is pretty much doomed at the gate.

In a country song, a youth once asked an old cowboy about the secret to life.  The response was “Older whiskey, younger women, faster cars, more money.” 

This line captures the essence of the ideal fusion program.