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Sounds like something the government might be interested in. Radioactive fuel, radioactive waste, big budget, no timeframe, everything seems to check, all the way down to requiring the steam turbines.

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It looks to me like an enterprising way to sell relatively small numbers of circuit boards and paid forum memberships for ongoing revenue. But then, I noticed the similarity to an In Circuit Emulator and Software Development Kit, combined with a standard IM business model. Didn’t bother to read much of the site.

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Aw, Jamesr, if we move it to the noise category, we’d have to move anything and everything DT-related there, too. :ohh:

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jamesr wrote: Here’s an image of what I reckon it should look like (photo is actually of a lightbulb filament)

Cool! Hadn’t realized the coil itself was coiled. I take it this is going to be very noisy to cool with pressurized helium?

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Tulse wrote:

if you take an empty factory (doesn’t have to be over 50,000 sq ft) and find a way to locally fund anywhere from 20 to 100 or more clean energy jobs using this building as a charter school/ research center, you will get a LOT of free local TV news coverage to kick off the local debate.

But be aware that, without careful planning and PR, the debate might start with “Company puts nuclear reactor using toxic fuel in local building.”

The charter school by definition precedes the cutting-edge fusion research and proving/ developing facilities, since its funded by a direct-sales office in the same city or even village. I’m designing this model to directly address any and all safety concerns head-on with real information- including how to put a FF DPF on their business’s roof- that any person in the US can get in person with less than a 25 km drive. (!) Thus even if this network of 10,000 or more charter schools can’t commercialize aneutronic fusion (I have no interest in DD for its own sake or DT fusion, period), it will produce a myriad of Bright Line transaction potentials. Rezwan’s called these the Multiple Bottom Line.

Thus Focus Fusion is already paying it’s way in society in the form of ideas that can reduce air pollution by reducing the distance that millions of Americans need to drive to school or work, as well as creating new jobs, without inventing a single thing.

If you’re reading this in another country, please feel free to adapt these ideas to your locale. Heck, copy them outright if you can. Somebody has to break the ice and prove the business model before there’s a bandwagon to jump aboard.

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zapkitty wrote:

… and would allow the utility to test and perfect the process without public scrutiny or NIMBY issues.

… but you’d want the public to be aware that Focus Fusion itself does invite public scrutiny and that the utility should send the more inquisitive types to FF resources.

It seems that humanity will never be rid of the sort of idiots who will self-determine that the mag fields from an FF unit are turning them into newts… but there are also a whole lot of people out there who’ve been burned by corporate malfeasance in pursuit of corporate profits and such people will want valid assurances that this latest “thing” really is safe.

Think in sound bites and be ready to defend against attack ads by those who profit from the public’s ignorance. Most of the public, including prospects in the business world, are unaware that the world can change for the better any time soon and that they can play a significant part. I like Aaron’s scenario along with another where neighborhood businesses operate their own rooftop FFs.

My guess is that if you take an empty factory (doesn’t have to be over 50,000 sq ft) and find a way to locally fund anywhere from 20 to 100 or more clean energy jobs using this building as a charter school/ research center, you will get a LOT of free local TV news coverage to kick off the local debate. Be ready to fund a lot of speaking engagements in several counties. This hack addresses the education and clean energy jobs hot-button issues and can readily scale to the global level using publicity rather than advertising. :coolsmile:

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Their use of the word plasma could mean almost anything, imo. I’m also highly skeptical of their downplaying of the radioactivity issue(s). Seems to me that if they want to invoke anti-trust and RICO laws, they’re going to need to show some concrete idea of what they’re talking about. Until then, it reads to me as just another conspiracy rag.

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The music is a good start, but since we’re trying to reach people with no DPF background, a voice-over mentioning (very briefly) what’s going on in each step could be a solid foundation for further refinements. fiverr.com has some people who specialize in roughly 30 second professionally recorded voice-overs for $5. Another site I’ve heard of is tenbux or something similar.

Great start! Sounds like you’re making great progress through a rough learning curve.

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Breakable wrote: I just want to point out that any work that LPP does on the spark plug distracts them of the actual work on fusion. So the best ideas would be as simple as possible, easy to implement and not require any extensive engineering, prototyping, testing. The best ones would be already existing products – are there really none?

Repeatability of the current pulse IS the foundation of the FF/DPF theory. Without it, anything else veers rapidly toward speculation. Additionally, this could lead to a self-financing product technology.

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An initial search returned these pages:

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_npmv=3&_trksid=m570&_nkw=charities
Maybe we could sell our historic spark plugs, clothing, printed posters? This category, Collectibles>Historical Memorabilia might also work:
http://collectibles.shop.ebay.com/Historical-Memorabilia-/13877/i.html?_nkw=charities&_catref=1&_fln=1&_npmv=3&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282
Here’s the Google search results for Ebay Charities:
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=ebay charities&aq=f&aqi=g1g-o1&aql;=&oq=ebay+charities&gs;_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=5f0ee030dde2e852&pf=p&pdl=3000

And here we have it, along with the terms: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/selling-nonprofit.html#create

Seems to be a standard type of listing with some differences in the billing. Glad the 503 isn’t brand-new, lol.

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rashidas wrote: Here is a link to an article on Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactors. Could this give Focus Fusion a run for its money?

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22114/

It couldn’t compete directly with any aneutronic fusion technology since its uranium fuel and nuclear fission reaction are designed to lower the horrendous capital expense of operating existing and proposed near-future fission power plants.

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zapkitty wrote: Hmmm… add a couple of offset helix projections to a previous project, curve to emphasize central vortex, loft, add lower case text ala a certain dairy product campaign… but with a forward-looking verb emphasis… more dynamic, y’think?

Looks sharp. It could also say “beyond petroleum” 😆

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I wouldn’t be surprised to see Germany and the AE in the forefront. The PIIGS, and now the UK have a lot more debt to pay before they can directly commission fusion power plants. But that could give them the opportunity to decommission the fossil-powered plants as the price continues to fall and general acceptance requires it.

Beyond borders, imagine what might happen if GE, Siemens, Westinghouse, McDonalds, Burger King, and WalMart all announced plans to be producing power locally within 10 years. We can build a tsunami with between four and six sales.

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It’s not so much that I want a heat generator as that’s what I expect to be fastest way to commercialize an over-unity FF. Your unit cost favors the low end, whereas I’m expecting it to be closer to 1M engineered and installed.

What neither of us has in the budget is NRC type approval/ certification, licensing fees, inspection fees, and other assorted politics which will put upward pressure on those 3rd party fees. How much extra time and regulatory expense is anybody’s guess at this point, but I doubt it’ll be a small fraction of the system costs unless we have overwhelming public awareness and support.

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1/4 cent per kWh implies both substantial over-unity operation and some proven way to convert the various fusion products, including thermal energy if applicable, into electricity. It would also seem to imply a very generous estimated lifespan of wear parts like the electrodes, which begs the prospect’s most pressing question: “What is my TCO total cost of ownership?” A related question would be regulatory requirements, overhaul schedules, and overhaul budgets.

Your 1/4 cent per kWh may well be 20 years down the road unless you can line up substantial subsidies.

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