Reply To: Energy Output – MW & GW

[Aeronaut]

I just got back from a “meet the candidates” gathering for people running for State office. I was testing the hypothesis that these candidates may be aware of FF’s timetable but waiting for the success headline before publicly endorsing fusion, since fission is known to work and fusion is technically speculative at this point from their point of view.

Only one knew about aneutronic fusion and its implications on many levels. If I did it right, and the follow-up Monday night in another town reinforces and expands the number of state and local candidates I’ve pitched, we’re going to be getting some new members, looking for more detail.

Something I noticed while working my way around that room and back was how many of these people were mingling with each other as well as the potential voters. This is a good thing when you’re pollinating the idea of practical aneutronic fusion power scheduled for energy break-even in 2010 or 2011. If they’re talking about you and / or your message, you’re promoting every time any of them think about energy, emissions, job creation, budget fiascoes, etc. etc.

Right now this seems to be the most productive way I’ve found to leverage my time promoting FF. So get out and ask your candidates if they’ve heard of aneutronic fusion, and its ability to become history before the election. http://politicsone.com will give you the slates for your state (sorry, US only) and federal candidates in 2010 and 2012.