Reply To: Fantastic news.

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote:

Maybe in the long stretches between mile-stones we can turn the question around.
What have FFS members done today to promote the cause? :wow:

Excellant question, PD. As a FFS FaceBook page admin, I’ve been slacking. I just posted an overview discussion that could benefit from some intelligent comments, and even some links, diggs, stumbles, that sort of thing, if anybody’s so inclined. I’m planning to start another discussion over there tomorrow about why FF is so small, light, and economical. Hopefully these should all make sense to laymen.

btw- I appreciate your sense of humour.
Most of my contacts are with people who “stick their heads up” on various websites, whether writers or public figures. Some give responses, some not. Previously, I was also exploring the possibility of getting funds for FF, but it’s actually quite a dicey process, since as an unlisted company LLP can only use a very few private channels, and cannot use outside services or promote itself. Then the funding came through last year, and I’ve not put out any further feelers in that area.

Many of the “information contacts” are with those on the sane fringes of the green movement (those concerned with long term outcomes per se, not wedded to specific projects or solutions. [E.g., not those who are pushing for rooftop solar on all the world’s houses, or a home windmill on every chimney, or …])

As much as anything, I phrase the contact as a kind of “heads up”; here’s what may develop in the next few years, don’t despair! Most who respond take that message kindly, though there are those who are fundamentally soured on the word “fusion” as a perpetual pie-in-the-sky which is just a distraction from the “real stuff”. Heavy duty fission promoters tend to be in that category, though not all.

And as Aero does, I get involved in a few site comment and discussion boards like talk-Polywell. There are some very knowledgeable people there, and occasionally I’ve PM’ed those who seem most interesting or approachable.