Reply To: The Texas 22nd Primary Elections on March 4th

[Rezwan]

Well, that’s one way to look at it. Another is that telling the fusion story is going to require quite a few more articles, and testing different frames. Obviously, if LPP gets splendid results, then the story is that we are well on the way to pB11 fusion. But this approach gives people (and media) a “wait and see” out, where they can ignore what’s going on in fusion until there is the earthshaking result.

If results are required, the media at present doesn’t have much to back any fusion story. Right now fusion is still a bunch of underappreciated guys who may or may not succeed. Toiling away for the cliff-edge breakeven event and the validation that might bring. It’s all in exploratory, hypothetical mode. The issue is, how do you make the case that it’s important to do the research when you’re not sure what the results will be? What is the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge? Why is the world only interested in the results and not the process?

I don’t think we (mankind) deserve the results if we’re dismissive of the process. That makes the world a bunch of fusion free riders when the results finally come.