Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote: There’s a tricky interaction here based on the facts that (almost) everybody knows at least 100 people, and that birds of a feather flock together. In this case, the pols get the early heads-up, pass it on to their business friends who fear they’ll need a break on carbon taxes, then I test the copy by buying visitors from StumbleUpon’s business sections.

AFAIK there is only one existing DPF large enough to even think about replicating. I think it safer and more productive to find the right personality type to invest as much as 1M$ to get 2 machines and campuses ready to confirm. This psychology is the all-important ice-breaker- like the first guy to cross the gym to get the dance started.

The timing seems odd … fear of carbon taxes is a longer term issue than 2 years, from what I understand of the ramp-up. But once FF is on the market, the question is, or should be, moot. Carbon output will fall off a cliff regardless, and people will not need (or be willing) to put up with bloodsucker taxes like that on productivity. FF will solve that rapidly, on a local, national, and global level.

As far as replicating, I’d assume new rigs conforming to the latest successful design would be assembled. If any of the existing DPFs were unity-capable, it would already have achieved it, so it’s irrelevant. And you can’t physically “get ready” what isn’t ready to get ready. Unless Baby works more or less unmodified.

Sustained output? I’m not sure why the engineering phase would start with anything less than a solid promise of an operational ignition and control system happily pulsing in a repeatable manner.

Depends on the issues the engineering needs to solve. There’s a reason 3 yrs. has been “allocated”; the specifics may well be devilish! A “solid prospect”, or even a “reasonable prospect”, might be all you get.

Actually, your use of the word “promise” seems to illustrate your assumption that once unity has been achieved, it’s all over technologically but the tinkering. Some tinkering! 😆 :cheese: