Reply To: The Harmful Economics of Biofuels

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I’m not only talking about FF specific experiments, so maybe that page isn’t as appropriate of a discussion forum as this one.

I’m not sure of your web framework issues… Movable Type is okay if it is working for you… I’ve only used python frameworks myself. If you feel a bottleneck in “crowd sourcing,” compiling information on fusion and plasma physics related topics, then I think it is because both of these fields are growing (but are still fairly small in comparison to even closely related scientific fields – like neutronic fusion and projects involving a lot of EM stuff). Anyway, you’re doing a fine job with the web architecture (but feel free to hit me up for IT advice/help Rezwan).

Maybe we could get more professionals and professors to collaborate by posting. Though the web forum concept/behavior is a rather new one, so people that are old enough to be professors might do better replying using interviews, blogs, videos, and the like. I would be happy to start some dialogs – and I did to a small extent when I visited the Alfvén lab at KTH last summer. This needn’t be FF specific either, but like most things related to one another, it has the ability to greatly enrich our ability to work on DPF-related devices.

With supporting a small project comes the issues of having a small community. Learning more about physics and engineering, though, would certainly not be restricted to such a small group of contributors.