Reply To: Angular momentum mechanism

[Mike Weber Goodenow]

There is a difference between educating and lobbying.

I think that FFS should dramatically increase its focus on educating policymakers and public decisionmakers. This means the federal Administration, the Congress, Governors and their state adminstrations, and state legislators. Economic development people at the state level need to be a focus.

Sharing the benefits and promise of clean (aneutronic) fusion — and details about it — is educating.

Educating becomes lobbying when there is a particular bill or action (appropriation) that you advocate for.

Educating can be done cheaply. Sending an e-mail to 7,500 state legislators doesn’t really cost that much. Lobbying costs quite a bit more. (There are also lots of laws about it.)

So FFS could expand its education efforts in 2012 but wait until 2013 or later to do real lobbying.