Reply To: Questions regarding DPF.

[Rezwan]

Rezwan wrote: Except…that brings up another issue: GW fears (right or wrong, who am I to judge) are very useful for the fusion community. It makes more strategic sense to leverage such fears to increase fusion funding, rather than dismiss them. Historically, fusion funding rises and falls with these sorts of panics. Weapons races, OPEC oil embargo, and now global warming.

It’s not about consensus, folks, it’s about coalition building (out of cantankerous people who tend to repel each other) for the purpose of directing the stream of pork to things you value.

Stay on mission, folks.

Not just GW fears, GWD fears are also useful.

We can leverage GW fears to increase fusion funding because GW-ers want emissions down. Likewise, we can leverage GWD-ers fears of GW-er success and cap and trade and other such regulatory horrors to increase fusion funding.

As long as people are going to run around being shrill and fearful, we may as well leverage them to our advantage. I mean that with all due respect since I don’t have the time to personally evaluate the data in any scientific manner and don’t know which fear is most warranted.