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benfFolks on this forum may have seen the news on the Alcator C-mod project at MIT and their record breaking pressure achievement for a tokamak.
This achievement matters to us because a few years ago we rallied and became involved in letter writing and petition signing to support the funding which was going to be cut to this program.
It points up the value of continuing these support campaigns—they can produce results. In the spirit of promoting alternative fusion energy research, we got politicians to take a second look at ITER funding. We got them to extend MIT’s funding for a year, which enabled the research to advance….ARPA-E has funded Helion Energy.
I think we can leverage this achievement to enable more funding for small scale alternative projects like Focus Fusion in the future….I plan to do more writing…petition signing, etc. We all should! 🙂