Reply To: Report from Scandinavia

[Charles Wilcox]

Wow, quite active here for two days. 😀

I think the circular design of the words around the plasma-focus emblem is awesome. Dropping the atomic symbols… I’m ambivalent about, but if the equation is elsewhere to be found, then it’s okay.

As for the peace symbol analogy, I think this could be seen as kindof cheezy if we make it too obvious… but I tend to like subtle things.

I have an idea on how to simplify the diagram a step, perhaps give it more meaning, and maintain the peace symbol. Instead of thinking of ‘H’ and ‘B’ combining together, you could think of ‘H’ flying into the ‘B’ nucleus. In effect, the Hydrogen would be splitting Boron into the Helium atoms and creating the energy. If we used this, all you would have is ‘H’ at the top, ‘B’ in the center, and the ‘He’ flying away.

I think this depiction would make the combination of hydrogen and boron a stronger, explicit action compared to what we currently have. The only worry is that someone might confuse this action as a form of fission and not fusion. However, I think somewhere on the Focus-Fusion site it discusses how this is in fact fusion. And maybe this enigma would make people think about it more.

Thoughts?