Reply To: Space Fountain

[Lerner]

How can each and every person on this forum help? First by raising focus fusion, aneutronic fusion, DPFs and alternative routes to fusion in every discussion you see on the web about energy alternatives, safe energy, cheap energy, the economy, everything our work can affect. Raise it on Facebook chats, on forum comments in environmental web sites, on comment pages of news media sites (you get a lot of feed back there.) People can start getting together in person through websites like Meetup. (We already had a successful fusion Meetup in New York City)

FFS has started some competitions and I suggest there be a competition for who can get focus fusion or related subjects on the most discussions. We can give out certificates for getting on 5, 10, 20 forums. We can have special prizes for the most forums in given category—environmental forums, news sites (one comment on New Scientist site probably got us hundreds of new visitors to our website.) We can give extra points for those who get responses to their posts. Maybe every three months the all-around leader in starting discussions can be given a tour of LPP’s lab—in person if you are close or by webcam in you are not. (Come to think of it, maybe we can get the Las Vegas and Warsaw DPF faculties to give tours once or twice a year too.)

We also need your ideas on how to get the word out more effectively and answer peoples concerns and confusion. Maybe we need prizes for idea generation too.

How does this affect your earthly immortality? Your post on a forum, for example, reaches some editor who decides—”this is being talked about a lot—now I’d better cover it”. A big article might reach some government decision maker. Enough articles, people get talking—”why isn’t this being funded?” Enough talk, organizing pressure, and maybe we get a crash project to get it done—all from your post. How’s that for an effect on the endless future?