Reply To: General thought on old coal mines.

[Rezwan]

Murali is writing up the report this week. That will have your technical info. As for day to day stuff, Eric’s on vacation for a few weeks so they won’t be firing the machine. Abdel and Murali are taking the time to open all the switches, clean and examine them. And sand them (I’m not clear – I guess they literally sand things). One of the sparkplugs never fired – they’ll be checking on how it’s different from the others. A center pin holder has to be re-machined so they all have the same depth…

That sort of machine conditioning activity. Also, they will be taking this time to write up some reports for publication.

And other things. For example an “antileak/movement redesign” so that the insulator can no longer move or leak.

In more progressive news, they are also talking about the boron and tackling the to-do list to be ready to incorporate that into the experiment when the other issues are resolved.

As for me, we’ve got lightroom and I finally see the possibility of managing all the pictures I’ve taken so far. Approaching 3000, and yet plenty of gaps remain. I’ve also got a volunteer (Victor Glass) to help with the picture project. Will be taking advantage of this re-tooling time to get more information from the guys about what the heck I was taking pictures of this whole time. And what the gaps are. Oh! And the macro lens I ordered works nicely, so we’ll be getting up close for more detail.

Also – I set up a wiki for the focus fusion society, and I’m drafting a “Focus Fusion General Plan” – to be unveiled…place your bets.