Reply To: March 5-9 2007: 7th Symposium on Current Trends in International Fusion Research in DC

[Rezwan]

Aeronaut wrote:

So in the next 10 to 20 years we’re graduating a bunch of techies competing for jobs like new teachers are today. By adding a fourth branch to the government vs industry vs academic research environment, we’re not upsetting anybody else’s funding. My fantasy runs more along the lines of an announcement that the

“Podunk Development Co-operative seeks 50,000 partners contributing $100 annually to build and operate cutting edge aneutronic fusion research and tooling support lab to employ 2 degreed physicists, 10 physics undergraduate students, and up to 100 physics majors and promising high school students, who will graduate with solid work experience. Other intangible benefits include mentoring opportunities while developing a community of motivated problem solvers in all areas of business and the community. Creating and maintaining a global reputation for the highest energy density aneutronic fusion generators is the driving focus. Contact _____ “

Now we’re out of the ownership mentality and back into the frontier-style barn raising thinking.

Yes, that’s it!

FYI, my Mollusk example was to show that this doesn’t just apply to Focus Fusion, it’s broadly applicable to any number of innovative ventures.

The issue here is timing. Emergent social media technologies suggest that the time is right. We no longer need to settle for amputated markets but can unfurl the full scope of the market. Radically pro market. But there are quite a few SEC laws that oppose this. So – I don’t know if the timing will work for Focus Fusion.