I have yet to personally meet even 1 person who could comprehend the difference between DPF and a tokamak. I might as well try to raise money for frumjoogles.

Dear focus fusion researchers,

To help along focus fusion I am putting it foremost in my preamble for my submission to the Virgin Earth Challenge. If your idea cannot work neither can mine!

Having discovered a productive way to extract the CO2 from the air and restore the climatic balance by cooling the ground and warming the stratosphere the problem remains as to an energy source to replace the conversion of C-H bonds to C=O bonds which is the primary cause of global warming. Focus fusion is very much in the lead here due to its no-free-neutron implications; unless focus fusion can be set up my Virgin Earth challenge will remain non-functional.

Hence I hope to be able to direct his desire for funding towards you as it is vital for Branson & Co. to understand that focus fusion be realized first, i.e. before global warming can be tackled in any meaningful and effective way. After all even the Chilean Government at its most sympathetic cannot provide the bucks needed for investigating all the practical ins and outs (as opposed to theoretical modeling) required to get focus fusion working.

When I get confirmation of my submission, probably not for another 3 months or so, I will post again here.

Yours faithfully

Mark Lofts

webtaz99 wrote: I have yet to personally meet even 1 person who could comprehend the difference between DPF and a tokamak. I might as well try to raise money for frumjoogles.

Frumjoogles! I want one!

On a more serious note, this is a job for the “Concept Monitor”, inspired by the “Confidence Monitor“. We design a quiz/info thing that will spread virally, getting people to realize they don’t know the difference between frumjoogles, tokamaks and sundials. It all links back to handy information on our website, and so on. If it’s a fun quiz, it becomes viral and gets people talking to each other and about fusion.

I like the idea of asking people if they’ve heard of aneutronic fusion before, because then if they don’t know about focus fusion, it provides a window to explain the process. It also gets LPP and focus Fusion on various candidates radars– and some of them might want to research the technology more on their own so that they can answer the question with more knowledge the next time it comes up.

Although the Oppenheimer analogy is a vivid one, since the shares Eric is selling are *nonvoting*, I don’t think the shareholders have that much leverage to apply extra pressure. I also feel like Eric and the LPP team are already working as hard and fast as they can, and would benefit from support more than any kind of additional pressure.

As far as investments go, I feel like lots of people are investing some of their portfolios in Focus Fusion because even if its risky, if LPP is successful, the technology could be worth a lot. But success (and any kind of commercial viability) is still probably ~5 years off (if not 10). So its a long-term investment with a lot of uncontrollable factors. And LPP would still benefit from additional government involvement.

The more people we ask though, the more chances that other will find out about it and want to learn more and get involved in spreading the word themselves. . .