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QuantumDot wrote: there is a design for a thermo photo voltaic device that in theory could achieve 85 percent efficiency, from what i have read it hasn’t come close to actually achieving that but there is hope that it will.

Sounds like inconel, along with the associated prices of machining it. I’d guess that an off-the-shelf SS would provide enough efficiency for most apps, just like CPU chip pricing.

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Glad to help. LPPX can be proven or disproven (for the moment) the fastest and cheapest. Maybe that’ll get the Navy to “declassify” enough to make polywell a viable player for FFS to begin targeting resources for. Look what this conversation did in terms of CBFR!

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What’s the creep temperature for a generic stainless steel?

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Aren’t we already setting up to support all forms of aneutronic fusion? My understanding is that as we gather the resources, we support the program with that which requires the least amount of resources, just happens to be the most transparent, and also has a stated schedule and plan to achieve it.

Beyond that lies the land of huge cryogenic electromagnets to develop for every scaling test. And those uncharted waters are going to take much more resources than LPP.

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Yes, the CBFR and PolyWell also use direct energy conversion devices based on the same principles as ours.

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Glad to see a potential backup plan. Thanx for the numbers, Vansig.

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1. Build a sales/communications company with 10,000 local offices- almost down to the township level.
2. Reinvest profits in 10,000 cutting-edge fusion research labs. Rewrite SEO rulebook with 10k unique IP dot coms, followed by 10k more unique IP dot edus
3. Manufacture and install 10k to 20k FFs as a tax dodge, if nothing else. The interactions of all of these components brings all sorts of sweeteners to the table.

The hardest part is believing that most of this is possible in less than a year and that it (creating around 3 million US clean energy and education jobs)can be done with less than $500 of capital. IOW, no IPO required.

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zapkitty wrote:

Ladies and gentlemen, our most apparent detractors, like most posts in these threads, seem to assume that we mere mortals can do nothing to change reality.

Uh… translation? What is an “apparent detractor”?

Advising of a set of very real pitfalls and possible countermeasures to same is hardly being a “detractor” and such labeling serves no useful purpose in discussing a set of facts that are very much in evidence.

As for the rest of your comment… you seem to think that the middle managent will be calling the shots for the uber-wealthy…

… when the results so far have been those in power announcing yet another “grand bargain” with the uber-wealthy via their proxies in the corporations… a bargain that always winds up with the oligarchs walking away everything they wanted with a cherry on top and everyone else getting screwed, blued and tatooed.

The question you should be thinking on is this one:

“How can you deal with them when they believe they can have everything without your help and have no problem with being as dishonest and as ruthless as it takes to get exactly what they want?”

Hm I guess you missed my bootstrap a corporation posts. Basically one shows Them that They’ve lost their touch. Them=Detractor in my usage of the word, because I seldom see reality as being static.

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Ladies and gentlemen, our most apparent detractors, like most posts in these threads, seem to assume that we mere mortals can do nothing to change reality. I beg to heartily disagree, as I’ve posted the details of many times over the past few months.

My understanding of the folks who run the big corporations is that they’re really motivated by profit —> stock prices climbing predictably. This means that they can become allies for a price. I doubt these people are married to their resource anywhere near as much as any mortal would be to the power and prestige that go with a strategic position in the economy.

Now, what might motivate 10 to 20 warring factions in the Afganistan regions could be a challenge to outline.

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Brian H wrote:

that was a typo in the url. remove the final ‘l’, you’ll get the article.

Yeah, fixed.

Wow. Didn’t realize smartphone processors were that powerful.

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The link shows a 404 file not found error. I guess one has to create an account to read the article. But the theory is interesting, at least until the civil liberties types pipe up about privacy or something. This would require a conscious double opt-in to head that off.

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The narrative flow can be maintained by mentioning that the 21st century has already escaped the steam cycle’s capital expense and low-efficiency traps with the Bloom Box, and may soon diversify the energy portfolio using aneutronic fusion to solve both problems by fusing atoms which are common in sea water.

As it stands, the 2nd paragraph makes a distinct shift into “sales copy” mindset.

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Rezwan wrote: Are you slamming spam? There’s a whole musical about it. I wonder if they can incorporate the Tok into “spamalot”?

I like it, personally. Was thinking link spam originating from dot edu sites with fusion labs, online libraries written by students, and all with government funding. Camelot, Spamalot, Obamalot, that’s how the line BS spreads. I feel a Camelot parody song beginning…

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AaronB wrote:

Hmmm, if Wal-Mart bought licenses and installed FF power plants at all of their locations, they could become the nation’s largest electrical utility and fuel producer. That would be interesting.

Wal Mart, McDonalds, and Burger King would make a trifecta.

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To whitewash a dictatorship as a peace-loving country. Especially if it really did have a working commercial fusion reactor. Mighty big IF in my book.

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