Aeronaut wrote: Brian, I agree with all posts on this thread except for yours. Henning hit the nail square on the head. I think the Green Movement got started in the late 60’s with the book “Spaceship Earth” and Earth Day. They’re well organized and backed because they paid their dues and slogged through their wilderness for probably over 40 years. This leads to the obvius question of what do you know about “them”, and how do you “know this”? I’d guess it’s humanly impossible to catalog all of “their” writings, ideas, forum posts, etc. without a HUGE staff and perhaps several years. Hence you’re cherry-picking your information, same as I often do.

This is not a blanket endorsement of the group or its politics- only the professional respect due to a group with a dream who was able to make it come true.

I first challenged you last year(?) to post as if you’d actually tried to figure out how to build or manufacture a FF, because I have on many occasions, so it was obvious that you haven’t, as you’ve failed to show evidence of trying to think outside of enough boxes to give FF a fighting chance of widespread deployment within 5 years.

This included the onion fabrication techniques and tooling chain (to name just a few requirements), and I recently posted some moderately educated guesses about maintenance and operating costs based on what I hope is a far to frequent quarterly core swap interval as per NRC regulation. The bottom line on the heat issue is that until an onion is mass produced and the price falls accordingly, you’ll need to explain to the business world where the electricity is going to come from, and all the questions which that will leave your position exposed to.

You will find that you need to build bridges in order to do anything meaningful in life.

Fundamentally I think that you are very premature in your demand that the manufacturing pipeline for FFs be laid out in advance of creation of a prototype. While there may be such issues as how to make an onion, it is one of several matters “in process”, and I treat it like the issues faced so far: serious, but not show-stoppers, with significant advances evident wherever they have been required to date. IOW, the principles seem sound, and engineers are ingenious. I note also that you, too, presume some level of operating FF as the basis of your heat-recovery plans. You can’t have it both ways! If FF operates at all, the economics of energy capture and use change forever.