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They’re following us on Twitter now, so I think they’ll realize we’re legit.

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Adam Chase, I anonymized those quotes at first in case anyone had privacy concerns, but since no one did they are all up at the link from FusionForPeace.

My fave, from Mehrzad Zangeneh:

“This is such a great idea. As an Iranian American, who is proud of both sides of me, I fully support this joint venture. I truly believe, If [Iran] and America slowly built their trust in each other, they will find so much in common as the people of both nations are proud, highly motivated for advancement, and have smart minds. If these two nations team up, and set aside their difference, human kind will advance at a much faster rate. These two proud nations are like two brothers or sisters, that need to re evaluate their relationship and see the ultimate benefits of man kind in their good relationship. Peace through love is everlasting and needs no gaurdians. Where as a so called Peace through force and threats is always in danger of breaking into a war. Best wishes for this proposal to happen. God bless.”

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Thanks for bringing this up again. I have now submitted an application from LPP to Petridish proposing they help us raise $15k (their max) of the $25k cost of the next round of switch upgrades to FoFu, perhaps with some support going to support grad students visiting from KSU.

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It should be nicer now–Fewer boxes within boxes and moved below the initial “I support Fusion for Peace.” Plus we got a very nice comment from MIT on the FB side, so I was then able to delete my silly example comment.

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I added some social modules for Twitter/Facebook to http://FusionForPeace.org in anticipation of first real media coverage–Whaday’all think? Unfortunately now there is a security warning due to the embedded external social content….peace is hard!!

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FYI, I sent Steve on the Sandia team our PoP paper to get his thoughts.

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Don’t ask, just do it! (Although this does get me in trubs with Eric sometimes 😉

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Tim Shaw had some great language for an email people can adopt:

US and Iranian physicists have put together a petition calling for cooperation on peaceful clean energy research.

The US technology could provide non-polluting, plentiful energy. It cannot be used to make bombs. Even though it is a form of fusion, neither the fuel nor the waste is radioactive. The fuel is boron (the ingredient in the old standby Borax cleaner) with normal non-radioactive hydrogen (as in H2O). It does not involve the high energy neutrons that turn reactors in nuclear plants into nuclear wastelands.

It turns out that scientists in Iran have been pursuing this same technology as a way to get power without subjecting them to the sanctions involved with acquiring/enriching Uranium, since this technology does not use Uranium or any other bomb fuel. So why not encourage them to develop this technology, even develop it with them, as part of our effort to stop the spread of the dangerous Uranium technologies they are currently concentrating on? Let’s do this! If successful, we create a technology that they and other countries can use for cheap power that has no Uranium link to weapons of mass destruction, so it not only could lead to avoiding a war with Iran, but wars over WMD with other countries as well. And it’s also a total win for the environment.

If you want to prevent unnecessary wars and save the environment, please sign the petition at the following link:
http://wh.gov/Rvu

To sign this petition, if you don’t already have an wh.gov account, just click on “Create An Account” in the above link. It took me less than 2 minutes to create mine. After clicking on “Create An Account”, I just put in my first name, last initial, e-mail, and the security text, clicked the button at the bottom to create it, and within a minute received a confirmation e-mail. I followed the link in the e-mail, and it took me right back to the petition, where I clicked on the Sign button and it was done. Less than two minutes to help save the world!

If you not only want to help save the world, but want to get your friends in on the action, please do not hesitate to forward this e-mail!

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They get a lot of submissions, so we’ve already slipped off the top of the firehouse–You’ll have to hit “many more” at the bottom and search the page (we all know CNTRL+F, yes?) for “fusion” to quickly find when it has popped back up, then ++++ ;-D

Commenting on the submission is another good way to show interest!

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The White House “Fusion for Peace” petition won’t show up to general public visitors to their site until it gets an initial 150 signatures, you have to already know the link. So spread the love and share the link!

http://wh.gov/Rvu

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http://wh.gov/Rvu

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TUNGSTEN GET! Don’t ask what we had to do to make it happen (*cough* it involved a trip to LONG ISLAND, sheesh). Seriously, though, Sylhan there very kindly sold us the material–They are tungsten specialists, so we look forward to future visits and perhaps advice for our NJ machinist.

Thanks to ya’ll, it does appear that Plansee-Express is the best source for non-emergency tungsten, so we will be sure to order some reserve material, especially since we are still worried about the machining process due to W’s brittleness.

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Checking them right now, thx Francisl and Henning! Willit, those suggestions certainly merit further discussion, but would require a switch from our planned interference fit. What we are hearing is that with tungsten, the brittleness is the major machining problem.

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Thanks, Henning, I did shoot them a request for a quote.

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Good suggestions, Will & Patientman, I could definitely see them being addressed as part of future optimization. For example, if the walls of the vacuum chamber could be used as the cathode, then the X-ray energy capture materials could be brought that much closer; but perhaps there is such a thing as too close, if the flux of low energy neutrons from side reactions might then causes excessive damage (but the neutrons will still be too low energy to cause “activation,” so still no radioactive waste!).

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Hey, ZK! I actually thought the 3D files I received earlier today were from you for a while, so you certainly get full credit–But I am happy to say that I was able to make a drawing from a Rhino3D model that Chris Kuether kindly sent in.

Now we’re waiting to hear back from a few shops with the ability to machine tungsten. The best so far would need to add radii of curvature of .004″ to a piece of 99.95% tungsten. Chris also added

DMLS might be practical [Direct Metal Laser Sintering] .. fused from tungsten powder, just locally. Practically zero scrap.

So we’re open to further suggestions for a place that can do DMLS with tungsten or otherwise has some W expertise (assume we’ve already checked out the top few Google hits). The earlier simple knife edge was quoted at just a few hundred, so it will be interesting to see how much 96 sawteeth adds to the cost.

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