Reply To: Environmental Awareness

[Aeronaut]

I like the fusion fund and bond ideas- much like savings bonds, iiuc.

I’d like to propose a strategy of investing in risk/reward based scenarios, where aneutronic outranks D-T on just about any data point. Drilling down within the aneutronic community, FF is again the logical first to fund choice since its the cheapest, most transparent, most accountable, and the only known full scale proof of concept model operating. In short, I recommend leveraging our transparency and results to the hilt. When scaled through university research programs, the savings of cloning FF-1 could easily become billions per year. The academic recruiting and training payoffs of LPP’s success would also scale accordingly.

The rest of the aneutronic community can be pitched as magnet and cryogenic research with direct payoffs in MRIs and large-scale powerplants which don’t use or make radioactive fuels and materials. I know the polywell forum has a verry lonnng thread keeping track of Freedom of Information Act requests and useful information. A transparency-based presentation format could do much to overcome this secrecy.