A little publicity? Or no.

[tcg]

I write occasionally for a site called Daily Kos, a mostly liberal site with a rather large following. It has a diverse bunch of readers, but many have already expressed interest in articles on alternative energy sources. I am thinking of writing a blog outlining LPP’s achievements to date and acquainting the audience with the DPF, but I hesitate to just jump in. My incentive is the recent article about Tri Alpha on PHYS.org.

I would like some feedback on whether or not this is a good idea at this time. Of course, I would like to hear other members’ ideas on this possibility, but mostly I would need to hear from the top of the organization. If this is a go, I would submit the copy for critical review, corrections, or outright rejection before ever posting.

Please advise.

[Breakable]

Hi TCG,
As a long time director on FFS board, it great to hear that you would like to start this initiative and. We certainly would love to have someone talk more about Fusion and we do believe we have some exciting time up ahead and we certainly would love to co-host your articles on our website too and link them on facebook if at all possible. I PM’d you my contact details if you want to chat further.

[Henning]

There are already a few posts on Daily Kos about Focus Fusion, mainly by Keith Pickering:
http://cookiesandmilk.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/21/795402/-New-fusion-device-achieves-plasmoid-pinch-UPDATED
http://cookiesandmilk.dailykos.com/story/2010/05/07/864141/-Fusion-progress-in-Dense-Plasma-Focus-experiments
http://cookiesandmilk.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/05/801060/-Focus-Fusion-Unity-Close

But why not post an update?

[tcg]

The article, “3.25 Billion Degrees — The Gateway to Fusion Power” was posted yesterday to Daily Kos.

I want to thank the people who contributed to its refinement — Ignas Gavelis, Oliver Snow, Jas Strong, Warwick Dumas, and of course Eric.

The article was up for the best part of a day and received 28 recommends (moderately high) and I had 35 counts in my tip jar, a separate means of endorsement. There were 46 comments, some of which were fatuous and some were responses from me. The remainder were mixed but generally positive. Most of my responses to negative comments received high recommendations. One respondent stated that her son had been following the progress of LPP and was studying to be a plasma physicist!

The most interesting response was indirectly critical and cited a fascinating article about neutron production, among other things. It is found on Wikipedia so the author is not known. I imagine Eric and the crew have considered many of the points made, but it makes an interesting read. We may run into these criticisms later. The link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Residual_radiation_from_a_p.E2.80.9311B_reactor

Again, thanks to all

[Breakable]

Thank you. I really appreciate your effort and would love to help out again.

[Author]

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