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This has rogue nation written all over it. Everybody else is going to want to protect what’s left of their imaginary wealth. At least until the next Bernie Madeoff makes his run.

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dash wrote:

I began understanding FF as a series of electromagnets that culminate in (hopefully) around 12 GG, stronger than any other fusion reactor’s field. But the only way to get there is to dump around 2-3MA into the anode for that brief 10pS(?) of every cycle. More input current means more energy gets transferred into the plasmoid.

I’m hearing that the period of current flow is so brief that no physical spinning fan-type insulator could actually serve.

However I want to make sure I’m understanding this. Are you saying 10pS (10 picoseconds) of current must flow each cycle? Let’s examine that.

1 picosecond is 1/1000th of a nanosecond. According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picosecond light travels 1mm in 3.3 picoseconds (but it’s a simple calculation anyway). So in 10pS light can travel 3mm. Is this the size of the focus fusion pinching involved?

It’s like the whole thing can fit inside an almond.

-Dave

Dave, I’m guessing at the runout timeframe (the plasma sheaths traveling up the anode). That’s sure to be studied and maybe tweaked in the next year or so.

What’s really easy to miss in this machine is how fast everything happens and that the plasmoid is measured in microns. (!) When you stop to think about it, a smaller plasmoid is easier to compress. As long as it encapsulates enough fuel to get the desired energy output per pulse, we should be good(er) to go. A large, low density plasma (and electromagnets) are some of ITER’s major challenges.

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Who’s going to be left holding the bag when cheap, clean, plentiful energy revalues the prices of metals, glass, plastics, and various securities, such as stocks and bonds? Without a clearcut advantage to invest in the new, we’re going to be stuck with the current despite the rhetoric. (call ITER for more details…).

IOW, it may take 20 to 40 years to educate a more sophisticated class of investor, while providing a transitional gradient in that time frame.

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dash wrote: Somewhere I read that there was a concern about electrode degradation in focus fusion. Ah, here’s the link:

http://talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1382

MSimon wrote “They do have a little problem with electrode erosion.”

I wonder if you could stop the current by having a rotating insulator like a fan-blade, maybe made out of glass. Maybe the electrode erodes because of the very high current spike when the magnetic field collapses? An insulator moving in front of the electrode to cut off the current could maybe protect the electrode?

Just an idea.

-Dave

Msimon knows his stuff. I believe he learned it as a Navy reactor operator. Art Carlson is a practicing, licensed fission engineer, so I pay close attention to what they say. Including the problems with focusing six electromagnets that we don’t have to buy or try to shrink.

I began understanding FF as a series of electromagnets that culminate in (hopefully) around 12 GG, stronger than any other fusion reactor’s field. But the only way to get there is to dump around 2-3MA into the anode for that brief 10pS(?) of every cycle. More input current means more energy gets transferred into the plasmoid.

The main challenges for anode life are the input current peak and how well we can cool the anode, which in turn will determine how fast it will be pulsed (how much power it produces).

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Thanx for the feedback, Eric and Brian.

I’m putting the previous version back up now, and am going to use the economics/quality of life(-style)/highly benign ecological spinoffs to flesh it out on a 5 to 10 page mini site once I work out the new angle(s). Should be able to work all ten sales story formats into that many pages.

The DeBeers and Gore stories were real eye-openers for me. I’ll start a feedback thread when I have subatomic overhauled. These last two sales letters only took me a few hours to write, so I will find the range soon.

Thanx again for the feedback, everybody.

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Where did I ask for money in any way, shape, or form? IF a link to FFS is taken, their solicitation is presented. Actually, I’d prefer to present FF using links to LPP, at least one link farther from the solicit button. What I asked for is help getting the word out using word of mouth advertising.

Reasonably content people have no driving reason to change anything, so the idea is to make the reader madder than hell- mad enough to make fusion power an issue and vote it en masse. If you’re broke and scared of the future, you’d be looking for a way out, too. I can’t help it, that’s just the demographic the Dems have always gone after. And times are bad enough there’s more of them in Congress at the moment. May be different after the next election or two.

I’ll admit I phrased it in the context of US politics, but the issues are wide enough that I’m wondering how well it plays beyond the US?

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Good to hear from you again, Phil’s Dad. You and Brian gave me enough food for thought that I rewrote the copy entirely. This may clear up most objections. http://subatomicprecision.com

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Powerful caveats being the “good ole boys? IM also means Internet Marketing in some contexts. The reason I ask is that I see a lot of world-class creatives and copy in magazines like Inc and Forbes. That’s what I really aspire to in terms of layout, copywriting, and presumably results. Can’t wait for 10Mb/s to become a slow speed connection.

I just did a preliminary keyword analysis- had Google tell me keywords seem to apply to subatomic, then ran the list through a script to see which ones look worth manually analyzing the competitiveness of for article marketing. The list currently has 47 words and over a dozen of them have monthly global searches in the six and 7 digit range. This is very encouraging.

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Almost all of today’s edits were for formatting purposes, so I’m curious why the sudden lack of faith. The reason for early public awareness is to survive the toxic battleground despite the link-building disadvantages.

I watched Palin tell NBC that she’s reacting, not leading, so she did that to herself, imho. She also got caught trying to bury the news on a Friday.

I reverted to my IM copywriting training yesterday and today. To me the site looks and reads like a toned-down (somewhat) IM cliche. Does it look and read that way to anybody else? I’ve seen some really slick-looking corporate sites with a lot less in graphics and words. At least I have a killer outline now. 🙂

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If you’re asking about search engine visibility, it comes down to the time and money a webmaster and/or promotional department are willing to put into building a lot of quality incoming links for at least the most commonly used search terms. Links coming from .gov and .edu are the most coveted for their quality. This explains why we can’t compete with the DOE and most universities for general terms like fusion, fusion power, fusion research, etc.

Permanent magnet motor sites (and, I imagine, ZPE and perpetual motion machine sites) like to bleat phrases like “repressed information”. Maybe it’s marketing, maybe it’s from not learning the basics of SEO.

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Brian H wrote:

Each individual generator requires walk-around-space for servicing. I don’t know if the shells could be packed in closer together, but I doubt it would make much sense, for safety and operational reasons.

As for the wagon trains, hey, dramatic stuff will happen, but it’s not the road to acceptance and success. It’s the economics. Clean and quick helps, too.

Speaking of the money: your savings calculations require a base to compare the current costs to, as I mentioned. Even a line like, “Installed cost per Watt and output pricing will both be at most 1/20 of current normal market prices,” inserted before your numbers, would allow them to make sense.

New edit beefed up the headline and broke up the 18 bullet points into several small groupings with intro lines.

I like that installed costs qualifier. Look for it in the next edit. Walk-around space and rain protection, as well as instant relief complexes would be easy using trailers with fold-out sides, at least around the generators. This would automatically place trailers around 16 feet apart.

Even though I made a compelling (I hope) case for the economics- including shorting energy futures, and implying shorting competitors’ stocks 😉 ,look for a series using C-130s for their wagon train as the probability of unity gains traction in the popular culture.

Edit- new edit’s up.

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Yeah, I’ve been guessing at the proper use of the apostrophe. :down:

The size of the actual housing will be determined by what each application requires. Mobile 5MW micro factories could spark a lot of investors’ imaginations. Imagine if FEMA had had a dozen of them in time for Katrina, making juice, clean water, restoring communications, and providing emergency medical facilities? If not FEMA, how about the National Guard and UN?

I remember when only Star Fleet had flip phones, lol.

Now imagine a disaster movie or TV series with a disaster relief convoy- kind of like a wagon train… FF would instantly be on the map.

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jowabea wrote: I like the web site. The headline grates on my grammatical sense of matched tenses. Can’t it be “What If Tomorrow Is Different?”

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I really didn’t emphasize how much I like the website. It is a great short essay for generating excitement.

Glad you like it, Jowabea. 🙂

My friends on a marketing forum said “Huh?”, so it looks like I need to make sure that anybody “gets it” in the first 5 seconds. There’s also a few new bullet points playing on the idea of a two ton, 7 by 7 by 10 foot 5MW power plant in a 53 foot semi trailer rated for 15 ton payloads, as well as shorting aluminum futures. ;-P

edit- just overhauled the headline and aimed it at savvy, aggressive investors and executives. Now its even shorter and sweeter.

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Brian H wrote:

5MW (nominal) is not necessarily 5 times more than 1MW (nominal). Tradeoffs such as cooling system requirements on a case by case basis, electrode life and true replacement costs of high wear parts will determine the actual power level that any power block is operated at.

BTW- what is it you want to see from FF before it ships? Are you looking for a specific set of specifications, a price point, some type of social impact? Something else? Please enlighten me.

PS- Google’s logo looks a lot like a plasma power plant today. 🙂

Before it ships? I would expect to see some moves on the stock and commodity markets as anticipation of consequences. An explosion of ideas and entrepreneurial inventiveness as the possibilities sink in.

The FF should “ship” (be licensed) when a proven replicatable design is in hand. Anything else would be irresponsible, possibly illegal.

As far as the power levels go, AFAIK those are rated output numbers, not fuzzy nominals. And as long as the service cycle is not more than once or twice a year, I don’t see any cost or other problems with increased “wear”. Remember the revenue from a year’s operation, even billed at ¼¢/kwh, would be around $110,000 with the savings benefit being at least 10X that, so replacement costs are not a significant inhibition from using 5MW instead of 1MW generators — especially since the capital cost of each is likely to be similar.

Excellant. We are more or less on the same page. I like the part about commodities prices in particular. Nominal as I use the term refers to pulse frequency and the related engineering and maintenance requirements when operated above 330 hz.

http://subatomicprecision.com is now under 800 words, with lots of bullet points. The headline is “What If Tomorrow Was Different?”.

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5MW (nominal) is not necessarily 5 times more than 1MW (nominal). Tradeoffs such as cooling system requirements on a case by case basis, electrode life and true replacement costs of high wear parts will determine the actual power level that any power block is operated at.

BTW- what is it you want to see from FF before it ships? Are you looking for a specific set of specifications, a price point, some type of social impact? Something else? Please enlighten me.

PS- Google’s logo looks a lot like a plasma power plant today. 🙂

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