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[zapkitty]

asymmertic_implosion wrote:
I agree that marketing and PR are important but I suggest staying away from textbooks…

But I swear the textbooks followed me home on their own!

More seriously, complying with your suggestion is gonna be difficult… Houghton-Mifflin keeps texting me asking for articles on aneutronic fusion’s influence on 16th century Ottoman Empire merchant ship designs…

asymmertic_implosion wrote: … and regulators.

Too late… FoFu-1 haz dun bin regulated 🙂

asymmertic_implosion wrote: All I ask is show me the data before claiming fusion will change the world. I’ve heard it too many times before. 🙁

We are saying that fusion power would change the world… and we are correct.

We are saying that aneutronic fusion power would have an even greater impact than neutronic fusion… and we are correct.

And we speculate on how a successful FF unit would affect the world… but we don’t claim that it’s anything other than speculation.

Then again, it doesn’t take a genius to understand that inexpensive and sustainable aneutronic fusion power would change the world and the very nature of the FF unit will define the how some of those changes would occur.

As for these particular threads: the fact is that a successful demonstration would have staggering implications for humanity. The magnitude of those implications is no reason not to discuss the potential effects of success.

Indeed, it’s probably a good idea to start talking about these things early…