Reply To: Toshiba's "Micro Nuclear Reactor" – it's not fusion, but it's here now

[TimS]

Rezwan wrote: Now that you mention it, we did set up a separate section for the DPF – it was supposed to be for actual DPF practitioners to discuss their work, and we wanted to restrict it from the rabble. We set up a site (densplasmafocus.org), and I see that in the upgrade of our CMS, I have yet to change the settings to direct it properly. Not quite sure how. It’s not a simple re-direct, there’s a php thingie, so it’s low on the backlog list.

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Guess I wasn’t clear, as usual. When I first heard of FFS/LPP/DPF a few months ago, I checked into DPF and saw that it has a very rich history going back decades. I know DPF has a whole community of practitioners. That is part of the reason I am here; Eric is leveraging all of that. However, I did not mean that FFS be focused on all of DPF. I meant, specifically, aneutronic fusion using a DPF reactor. Involving experimental projects. One such project in particular comes to mind, there may be others.

Like you say, if this does not work out, the name can be changed to “Focus on Fusion Society” at that time and we can all carry on. However, let’s think positive, and put our energy into making it work out. Most of the people here in this forum seem to regard LPP as the work that we are primarily interested in here, with other fusion projects being “other” fusion projects. It would seem to be a dilution and limitation not to be able to take all of the characteristics of DPF aneutronic fusion and use them to bring up some support.

Of course, I understand FFS is not legally part of LPP. We can’t be Eric’s cheering club, and I expect he doesn’t want that. However, personally I think DPF aneutronic fusion is pretty cool, but most importantly it is mostly what the people here are talking about.

I am bringing this up because I hope to get input from the wider community on this website, FFS members, etc. Is DPF aneutronic fusion the main thing here, or just any aneutronic fusion? I do not mean what do we think is most likely to be successful, or what we personally support, but I mean what do we think FFS is about?