Reply To: Questions regarding DPF.

[Rezwan]

Hey Kyle, just left a message for you. I love the direction you’re going in.

On a related note, I looked into Sage nonprofit software. Brilliant stuff, but it’s over $3000! The lady mocked our organization. Well, not really. She just said they work with nonprofits that have at least a $500,000 operating budget, and she knew we couldn’t afford them until we add a couple of zeros onto our budget! Nonprofit industry, who knew.

But she did suggest I go to techsoup.org, which I did, and I’ve just signed up. Check it out and tell me what software you think we should get for administrating our (soon to grow) donor base.

Warwick – interesting post. This reminds me of your comments elsewhere about the end of poverty being more due to the ideas of the enlightenment than the raw energy unleashed. Without money, energy and time, good ideas remain just ideas. Ideas, can, of course, make things more efficient, thus reducing the amount of energy, money or time required. But action is ultimately physical. And physical things eat time, energy, money.

The goal shouldn’t be to figure out how to better exploit the people who are working on a solution, but how to support them. You don’t want them worrying about their rent/mortgage/children/health etc. You just want them worrying about the problem you want solved. Also, we want to get people to support this avenue of research for aneutronic fusion in general – draw more money to it from all around, and for other aneutronic projects. Investment + support, not auto-exploitation.

And, about the micro-investors – you’d have to change a lot of laws.