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Brian H wrote:
My opinion is that you can get net energy output from fusion by being very big (a star) to contain the forces involved, or very small (FF plasmoids). Attempting to maintain steady-state fusion in the “middle world” of human-scale devices is a very marginal, possibly fruitless, undertaking, partly because of the non-linear nature of the energy fluxes involved. They tend to spike and burst through any containment and wreak havoc.

We understand that, but funders seem to need something tangible like toroidal electromagnets 8 feet across that weigh tons. I’ll never forget the first time I saw a picture of a tokamak’s interior, for instance.

Judo’s strategy of using the opponent’s momentum against him was universally known in the early 60’s, but the entire confinement coil mentality harks back to the “macho is its own reward” era- mainly the 50s and beyond. Actually it never really died, people just began expressing it through big cars, big dogs, big budgets, big magnets, etc. That’s why I’m targeting Visionaries who aren’t overly concerned with what the crowd thinks. People who appreciate elegant design, such as Judo.

Maybe we could use the buzzword “Go With The Flow!”

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300% is hot air, lol.

My understanding of a heat pump is that it moves latent heat (vs sensible heat) from one side of the wall to the other. I got one, and there’s still a compressor outdoors inside the condenser.

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WOW!

Eric, Jimmy, I’d like to see Brian’s synopis as a forum sticky and as a replacement for the blog.

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Big Type!

Brian, the easiest thing in the world is to think, and therefore act, precisely what those who think little, if at all, do. The product here is not the hardware, but the engineering services before, during, and after the sale. I mentioned these companies because several of their existing markets, such as MRI and CAT scanners, not to mention fission reactors and jet engines, give them a vested interest in leading the pack out of the starting gate.

But who’s to say if any of them can dominate any of the add-on markets?

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Thanx, Brian. Its at http://global–village.com

As far as contacts go, I met some financial sales people at a job fair last week and had a long talk with one last night. He thought he was going to sell me, and I was out to sell him FF, lol. (Here’s why Wall Street and “business as usual bores me”).

I’m also going to drop in on my Township Supervisor sometime this week. He and his office were VERY helpful last year when I was trying to round up support for local broadband. What I did was talk with his Clerk a few times and did her typing and a website (overkill) before talking to Jim for a few minutes. He then called the local radio station and it was on the next 4 newscasts.

We know the engineering works well enough to sell on an experimental basis, now we need to get a consensus about how soon we can sell licenses, images I can use on my site, that sort of thing.

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I think you’ll like my newly populated site, Brian. The header needs graphic interest, but the content and typesetting are about done. As to promoting it, wellllll, first we have to see what the Society thinks.

http://global–village.com

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JimmyT wrote: The hope is to shave a little time off that engineering time. There is no reason that some work on the energy capture portions of the prototype couldn’t be done concurrent with the fusion device.

That’s what I’m hoping to do, Jimmy. Why not set it up where our first few licenses go to outfits like GE, Siemens, and Westinghouse and let them do the engineering? Each will have their own approach, and it goes down three times faster.

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Scarcity and Urgency are the cornerstone hot-buttons of advertising. Presented as a high-stakes game of which visionary execs were the first ten to push the bandwagon, we have a whole ‘nother ball game called one-upmanship and corporate bragging rights. This means FF gets a free ride on their high-powered marketing machines.

Near the end of the Google Talk, Eric goes over the “other DPF brands”. What really caught my attention there is that Tri-Alpha’s machine is crippled on the drawing board by using electromagnets, resulting in more power to run the beast, and the resulting poor plasma density. There seems to be something about massive electromagnets that turns investors on.

The Emperor’s New Suit is a possible counter to that type of thinking. Maybe pitching it as “Looking For 100 Visionary Executives Who Prefer Results to Promises.”

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Brian H wrote:

I fail to see how a 95% reduction in the production costs of energy would not be considered a “technological lead”.

I’m also surprised that the Anti-Obama peanut galery didn’t chime in after the Reagan attack a few pages up.

Since Eric has committed to make licensing to manufacture generators to all comers world-wide open and affordable, any “lead” would depend on blocking that, or being first out of the blocks — a very temporary lead.

And anyone who wants to be micro-managed by the hyper-interventionist Obugabe administration needs a head-reading. Furthermore, one of the first and largest categories of economic losers from deployment of FF would be His new/old friends, the Islamic oil states. King Abdullah will not be amused.

P.S. It’s “gallery”.
Who says we have to lead in production? Glenn has an excellent thread in the fusionomics forum about creating wealth- and how America frequently patents things like the PC for China to beat themselves up figuring out how to build it for WalMart.

I believe Eric is right on target licensing globally. That business model alone is newsworthy. It could have easily been something like New Jersey Firm Corners Market On Fusion Power” for a headline.

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Admin wrote:

From my experiences with grant research and writing about 15 years ago suggest that it will take at least 1 full-time staffer to figure crud like the above out and navigate all the flaming hoops, only to be hamstrung by government regulations once we’re awarded the 2M$. Don’t see it being worth the effort, or the risks, myself.

I’m sorry you feel that way, because LPP is going forward with an ARPA-E application, for better or for worse.

No problem, Rezwan. IF you can think you can get it, by all means apply.

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That is a great one. Did you notice their loyalty and outrage when those cars were snatched out from under them? And that was in the Los Angeles area, where you have to use the freeway a lot just to get partway across town.

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No, but I have an article moderately well polished and a press release more or less rehearsed in my mind. Let’s set a target date of June 1st that I start dialing for dollars.

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This decade and the next few are going to be the golden age for Consulting Sales Engineers with a variety of ion and x-ray converters, heat exchangers, electrical components, etc.

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maihem wrote:
If you need advertising to aid in funding, just use google adsense and say something nice somewhere like “Thank you for visiting this ad. sponsored site. Your clicks can save the world. Please also consider donating“

Sorry, Maihem, Google strictly prohibits coming right out and saying “Click the ads”.

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My opinion of the entire social media (Web 2.0) thing is that once we’ve got our “few good CEOs” on board, they’ll get the bandwagon rolling and the web 2.0 crowd will come to us without reaching out to them. using anything but real world word of mouth. The search engines will also get sucked down our focus, lol.

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