Reply To: General thought on old coal mines.

[Aeronaut]

Intriguing numbers. I’d never heard of a 990, but I’ve always marveled at how small of a percentage actually makes it to an organization’s mission in the cases of most organizations with successful fund-raising programs.

I do have a question about when serial experimentation is more beneficial than parallel experiments where all teams can see what’s worked and refine experiments from there. Onion yield and manufacturing are going to be significant engineering and marketing challenges for as long as DPF fusion is in service since the fueling and cooling systems are going to be intertwined with the onion. So I’d expect the FFS program to look like it had gone dark during large stretches of the engineering phase.

I bought a press release (they made me an offer I couldn’t refuse) that will raise public awareness as well as deliver some link juice to FFS and LPP (anchor texts are aneutronic fusion and dense plasma focus). Look for stories based on it Monday and Tuesday, maybe for a long time if it taps the perfect storm that I believe is in place.

In less than 600 words I systematically reduced the capital costs of all nuclear (and turbine) programs to arrive at the DPF. Then it announces the target date of 2010 and the need to build a privately-funded network of FF-1 clones to solve a number of challenges that look more significant from the sidelines than they do from the field.

So anybody griping about lack of info could be more constructively using that effort to figure out how to finance either FF-1 or FF-2,501, which may “magically appear” at their community college within 2 years, unrestrained by govamint funding.