Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote: …
My current working headline is “Psst- can you keep a secret?”. The new copy is aimed squarely at visionary leaders with the balls to invest 1M$ in lining up 2 or more state universities to rapidly confirm breakeven, before the proof, so that they can lead the way into Industrial Revolution 3.0 . …

Sounds like politicians who would budget money for directed replication. Hm. I’m not sure that’s workable or useful; the time saved would be very small, and the payoff for the politician questionable. I say that because fusion break-even is such a major event that challengers and testers and replicators would be lining up. Of course, having materials in advance to hand to verify with might save a few months, but that’s not much to worry about.

I’m not sure what you envisage happening, here. Suppose “unity” is achieved with the test rig (though, AFAIK, its purpose is actually to verify that the temps necessary for pB fusion can be achieved, and pB fusion initiated; any sustained output would be attained later, in the engineering development phase.)

Then what?