The Focus Fusion Society (FFS) is a membership organization and 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity that seeks to turn the dream of safe, cheap, clean, unlimited energy from aneutronic nuclear fusion into a practical reality, to do it now, and to ensure that this technology is made available to all mankind.
Create an updated version of a plasma temperature-density diagram with thumbnails of flames, lamps, lightning. This version should show where ITER, NIF and FF-1 stand.
Once completed, we can publish it under creative commons and plaster links to it all over the place.
To collaborate - visit this thread in the forums.
Thanks to Mark Nelson for completing this fabulous video!
Technical help: I’ve uploaded it to Youtube and embedded it here. The original video (.mov) is available here. Note some difference in the sound synch between the two vids. Is there any way I can correct that on Youtube? Also, how do I change the still image? I want to have the starburst as the placeholder. Let me know. And now, Enjoy:
Fusion is already spanning the globe with a diversity of research. In this Google Earth tour, blast off from New York to Paris and onward to the south of France, where Cadarache Forest gives way to the vast scope of Iter, the international megaproject that may lead to fusion power into the grid by 2040.
...Then swing back past Lady Liberty to where a more modest effort is cranking the heat up to a billion degrees. Here not far from Edison’s labs, the FoFu-1 dense plasma focus and its armament of instrumentation could determine in the next year the scientific feasibility of net energy from a very different and even cleaner fusion approach. Learn more with a final landing at the Googleplex itself, where the now-in-progress experiment was outlined in a Tech Talk by fusion scientist Eric Lerner.
Eric suggested we leverage this tragic BP oil spill to get the word out about fusion. Are there any volunteers out there who can put something like this together. It just requires some simple captions, a few images, and music.
The global warming debate that has dominated our forum posts is distracting from the Focus Fusion Mission. It will hereby be capped by Monday, June 7.
Not all fusion is created equal, but few are aware of this. Here we compare conventional fusion (“the stagecoach”) with aneutronic fusion (“the spaceship”).
The ultimate goal of the Focus Fusion Society is to help bring about safe, clean, abundant, ideal energy for everyone. But what, exactly, do we DO toward that end?
Wondering what to do on Earth day to promote fusion? Try out the “Aneutronic Fusion Concept Monitor - beta” (pdf file).
As with many other nonprofit organizations, the Focus Fusion Society wants to leverage “social media.” We’ve all heard about “viral marketing”. We’d love to get the idea of aneutronic fusion and the LPP experiments to spread virally.
But how does that happen? Do we have to develop an “aneutronic fusion virus”? Find people who are good at spreading viruses?
