The Baby has a Name!

As you can see, Focus Fusion 1, aka “FoFu” has been born.  Thus ends the “Name the Baby” Contest.  We had a lot of great entries, check them out!

Focus Fusion Future’s market

A futures market has now been opened for Focus Fusion at Intrade.com under Scientific—Focus Fusion.  Here is how the contract is phrased:

Will net power be generated using the Focus Fusion process?
Focus Fusion process to generate net power before midnight ET on 31 Dec 2014.

The speed of light - Ninja style

Askaninja.com explains the speed of light.  Perhaps he can explain dark matter as well.

Prometheus - The Comic

Before you get too excited about stealing starlight from the gods and giving it to mankind, consider the trials and tribulations of Prometheus in the modern day. 

Name the Baby Contest

Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. will be constructing a dense plasma focus device that will be among the most powerful in the world and it needs a name!

So, LPP has invited FFS members and supporters to suggest some. Please submit your ideas using this form!

New Animations and Images in from Torulf Greek

Our favorite animator has come up with some new images to explain the concepts of Focus Fusion.  You can download them using Download-Link #1 at http://rapidshare.com/files/99271687/FUSION.zip.html

Click on the button that says “Free”.

Transitions in Housing

“Contour Crafting” is a very innovative technology in development which promises to provide low cost, unique, tailor-made housing for everyone and change the construction industry in fundamental ways.  If this works, like Focus Fusion, it will have a number of transition hurdles to face.

Teddy Roosevelt

TR is known to have said: 

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing you can do is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Light Bulb Transition Screw-up

How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?  And why do we have to screw it in anyway?  There’s no compelling engineering reason for the screw-in design.  It’s a vestigial quirk that rose out of the transition from gas light to electric light. 

Fusion in Spider Man II

Fusion in the movies typically involves disaster.  The disaster comes either from attempts by evil government/corporate forces to suppress an innovation (e.g., “Chain Reaction”, “The Saint”), or the fusion itself is dangerous and the scientist who makes it is mad, as in Spider-Man II.