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Iron Man specifically mentioned that his suit is fusion powered (dress for success). There was also a big one in his factory that resembles LaForge’s engine room. He didn’t seem to think fusion was any big deal, just one of his weekend projects…. and his prototyping shop makes my mouth water. Now that’s a credible spokesperson :coolsmile:

Lost in Space’s Jupiter 2 was fusion powered, and it was sooooo reliable and efficient that they never broke down or ran out of fuel.

Spock made at least one reference to a pre-fusion era.

Isn’t matter-antimatter annihilation a form of fusion?

I like the idea about the parodies. Those could get a lot of mileage!

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Dennis, assuming FF does work as promised and pretty much on schedule, it will still require NRC type certification since the reaction is at the nucleus level AND because it makes X-rays. Couple that with the ability to derail some gigantic gravy trains, and the engineering challenges pale in comparison to the political challenges. In my opinion, anyway.

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I’m reading a 100% duty cycle assumption into both the FF and the VASIMR, as well as 2 distinctly separate cooling challenges. What would be likely to happen if the engine were pulsed at around 300hz (eliminating or minimizing the FF onion’s output storage system) and were at least pre-cooled by the FF coolant?

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Sounds like an excellent grasp and framework, epimenide. Especially the linking plan. The math and graphics can come after a flow chart details their requirements in better detail.

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Breakable wrote: Matt’s example seems to be pretty good.

Yes, indeed. Only 3 variables. Maybe an “Experts” tab with as many as 10 variables if so desired…

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an Open Source framework is a great place to start. 🙂

“Free energy” will begin with the business community seeking competitive advantage. At the local household level, it can’t be free because of the need to maintain and repair the local distribution network- the last mile or few from the substation. Besides, US energy prices are nowhere near the sacrifice level required to get entire families to pull together for conservation. i.e.- “It’s one of Dad’s rules”.

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vansig wrote: i don’t see how this game will help to get anything real done.

The immediate aim is to get people aware of the technologies and challenges by playing the game. Those willing to do their homework should do better, as well as become more involved in the offline fusion world.

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Now we’re talking! This game design could easily spill over into the parallel universe often mistakenly referred to as “reality”.

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Killer concept! Yuh really think the animated button is all the game needs?

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mchargue wrote: Even if it were true, they’d never be able to commercialize it.

It’s seems that the fearless leader of a starving populace – who bowls perfect 300 games, can win all Olympic events, and can cause fusion by compressing the plasma with his mind – can only do this with one device at a time. I guess even He has limits…

Pat

Who’s to say NK isn’t lining up to provide LPP’s peer review? If so, China and Russia would surely be glad to help commercialize it.

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Definitely not without evidence.

” Pyongyang says its latest scientific breakthrough coincides with the birthday of the country’s founder, and eternal president Kim Il-sung – not the first time it seems that the laws of nature have been bent in his honour. “

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Sounds ambitious for FB, imho. A simple popularity contest harnessing social approval but not requiring much thought could spread like wildfire through the school systems, and from there to families and workplaces. And a very small percentage just may go on to harness that organization to develop business plans around aneutronic fusion.

1. Can you find the fusion reactor that could end runaway energy prices? (Hint- it’s in Thomas Edison’s home state)
2. Can your city “build” enough to be visible from space?
3. Click here to raise your city’s visibility.
4. Click here for more info.

Step 4 and a few more tracking clicks under it monitor popularity among those who may be wondering how to get a real fusion reactor built in their region for a wide variety of business reasons.

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@ Breakable, your RPG/SIM game sounds too complex for a FB game, although I think it does accurately model the real life procedure.

The pet rock succeeded because it was so incredibly dumb. How do you sell a rock to anybody, let alone the masses? The red and green map is a fairly straight forward popularity contest. The question would then be how to reward individuals and groups for large numbers of clicks so they make it viral with little or no advertising.

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Rezwan wrote:

I play a little farm-ville. It is as dumb as it gets: You click everything you can.

The purpose of the game isn’t to do something smart, so much as give people hands on time with fusion. “Dumb” is fine, in this case. Easy and un-intimidating. The real purpose isn’t so much to “teach” people about fusion, but rather to get them to “touch” fusion. manhandle it, recklessly click away at it. Feel a sense of cavalier ownership. “Clicking” in that case is an apt metaphor. Click it, tag it, paint it fun colors, just make sure you have one (a fusion reactor) in your life.

But the facebook approach isn’t about giving people difficult mental challenges. It’s about giving them excuses to poke each other with a pet rock painted to look like a fusion reactor : )

Yes, the Pet Rock was an incredible success in it’s day. Whoda thunk? Maybe set the game up where each player fends off the unenlightened special interests by clicking at least 20 times a day, preferably 50 or 100 or more. And reward cities and regions with a reactor for every 10,000 clicks or so that shows up on a global map where the forces of Darkness are pushed ever further into oblivion… fusion-powered regions would be green, fossil-fueled in red…

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Rezwan wrote:

http://fold.it/portal/

Looked at it a bit more. That’s really cool! They actually want to use people to solve the problem directly:

Figuring out which of the many, many possible structures is the best one is regarded as one of the hardest problems in biology today and current methods take a lot of money and time, even for computers. Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of humans’ puzzle-solving intuitions and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins.

Not sure how we could use people that way for fusion.

Set each community up with a cutting edge fusion lab and prizes for ever higher electrical yields :coolsmile:

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