For most human beings, any change, even a positive one, raises anxiety levels. Here we discuss the dream of a fusion world and the ordeal of change - the issues that must be addressed to transition from our world to a fusion world.
TransitionThis section looks at ways to facilitate the transition to fusion world, to make it as universally beneficial as possible.
Fusion WorldWhat does a world that runs on focus fusion look like? Consider a world with safe, cheap, clean, unlimited energy. It's hard to imagine because it's so different from what we have now.
If Focus Fusion is successful, will it mean that all the investment of time, energy, passion and money that has gone into traditional renewables is wasted? If we can get unlimited energy for a song, will all those solar energy companies go bankrupt? Is this a win/lose proposition?
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.
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.
Transitions don’t happen over night. When you compare total energy costs of hummers to hybrid cars today, as Art Spinella from CNW Marketing Research did, you find that the hybrids cost twice as much per mile driven. Hummer drivers rejoiced at this news, because they didn’t listen to the rest of the analysis.
The Energy Crisis*
*and the fusion footnote
According to many sources, the world today is caught in an escalating energy crisis. The crisis has profound economic, political and environmental impacts, which are steadily getting worse. But there is something missing from the old “Energy Crisis” equation, and that is Focus Fusion.
They say we might have fusion in 50 years. What’s the hold up? What are the barriers to developing fusion? There are many, but the most difficult ones are not so much technological as they are psychological. These barriers exist in the fusion research establishment as well as in the general public.
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.
From Firefly, the coolest sci-fi series ever, comes Serenity, the movie, in which our intrepid hero braves a giant generator to save the day.
Please bear with us.
