Reply To: Where does the information come from?

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote:

In principle, any over-unity fusion would be good. But the prospective implementation costs for each are part of the package, and it isn’t even really a contest. FF has by far the best costing prospects.

It seems unfair to deprive FF and LPP of a dedicated cheering section to try and be a Big Tent for fusion, though! It’s not as though the others don’t have their own followers and promoters. Encouraging communication and co-operation is realistic; attempting to be all things to all parties is not.

Underlying all is the implicit/explicit competition for resources (mostly but not solely money, of course) for research and development. It’s pretty hard to fudge on that issue!

Where’s the competition? In stealth mode, which eliminates public scheduling, budgeting,and resource allocation issues. Even PR will be phased if FF achieves unity in 2010 or the first half of 2011. So we’re already one of the cheering sections for aneutronic fusion. Talk-polywell.org is another. Too bad tri-alpha doesn’t have one.

Well, it would be nice to have the ear and contributions of, e.g., Paul Allen (who is reputedly feeding TriAlpha).

Not sure what you intended to type above, bolded. Don’ git it. :-S