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OK, moving. Let me know of other concepts to move. We do want to stick to credible ICCs in this section and distinguish them from less rigorous ideas. As those ideas pass through and survive a bit more scrutiny, we can promote them back up. Sorry Tim!

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Rashidas, this is a “Phase 2” question – what happens after feasibility is demonstrated. Many things in phase 2 are not clear, and changeable based on what happens now in phase 1. As Henning points out, anything we calculate about phase 2 now is de facto speculation. There’s a lot of proving yet to do. Aaron, you might want to be careful to say “if” rather than “once”. As MTd2 points out – LPP has many hurdles yet to overcome.

Yes, there’s a big backlog of explanatory materials. This is where the handy peer review process and feedback from fellow fusion scientists is helpful. We’ve been getting a bit of that (again, backlog in writing this up and posting it).

The good news is, by the time we get through phase 1, there will have been a lot of rigorous review of this process – we’ve got people looking over our shoulders, and that’s a good thing. If at the end of phase 1 LPP announces success – there will be a massive flurry of scrutiny and review. A thousand critical physicists will direct some tough questions. As those questions get answered to their satisfaction, we will be translating that into non-technical terms.

As for that being my job – this requires a team, ideally with expertise. It will certainly take more than one person to develop credible materials and conduct a quality education campaign.

For now, let’s start with basics. For a campaign to inform people about safety, first you need to be assured of the safety yourself. As LPP takes this concept from, well, a concept, to a real device, things change, new information comes out, and recalculations are required. Small changes, like changing the boron source (decaborane? Pentaborane?) will have different safety implications and required procedures. So the content of the safety information is still up in the air.

I would hope that we would be the most rigorous ourselves in addressing these issues and not waving them away.

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Just reading about Mark Zuckerberg, who randomly gave $100 million to Newark schools.

Zuckerberg, who is not from Newark, met Booker in July and developed a “continuing conversation” with the mayor about Newark’s future, reports the Times. Booker has actively been meeting celebrities, business leaders and appearing on television in an effort raise money for his city.

It’d be nice to score this kind of thing for fusion. Anyway, this bit about hacking from wikipedia:

Zuckerberg “clearly thinks of himself as a hacker”[11] and says hacking isn’t about “breaking and entering,” it’s about “being unafraid to break things in order to make them better.”[12] Facebook conducts “hackathons” every six to eight weeks in which participants have one night to conceive of and complete a project.[11]… “The idea is that you can build something really good in a night,” Zuckerberg told Wired.

So the “hacking” appeals to me because it’s about getting unstuck from “mainline” approaches and diversifying approaches to fusion.

Also, imagine a “switch hackathon” or what have you.

And also, it may be a way to relate fusion issues to the cyber generation of philanthropists. It’s a simple call to action that says, “Don’t leave it up to the mainline approaches. Try other things.”

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OK. Back to the “don’t mess with…” line of thinking.

“Fusion ain’t for sissies” is a bit sexist and retro. But how about:

“Hack Fusion”.

Get people to think outside the “mainline”.

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😆 Great demonstration of delegation by example.

You got it. Folks, to join the sparkplug simulation team, switch to this thread.

To keep talking about future spark plug options, remain here.

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Any particular reason you want to wait for feedback here? We can post it fresh right now. Fresh topic, also website post. And tweet.

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Great!

Funny you should be working on this. I’m trying to find the literature that relates to the ion beam in linkable form on the web. Also lit relating to the filaments coming out in reverse spinning pairs. It would be good for a link from your animation to the peer-reviewed lit on the topic.

Another thing that isn’t clear in either our earlier animation or this one is the gas, and that it’s in a vacuum. Any way to zoom in through a vacuum chamber to realize your inside something? And show the gas input from the cannister outside.

Because it’s current + gas that makes the plasma and travel over electrodes that gives it the desired arrangement.

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Probably have to fill in an application. I’m going to go ahead and delegate the finding of the link to the application to…any volunteers?

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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?

That looks great! Do you have a high resolution version we can upload so folks can start sporting it around?

We’ll add it to the Free Fusion Designs selection (CC, attribution, share alike). The idea now is to go viral with images, encourage a proliferation of them, get people out there talking about them. We’ll try lots of campaigns and images and see which ones are the most effective. Also, spinoffs will occur.

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I’m sure there’s a great section of the population that will find all of it appealing. Turn it into a sign and bring it on down to the Rally! We’re going to road test these signs. Best to have a variety.

Father and son looking over the land, immigrants in the distance: “Some day, son, all this will be theirs.” (Seen first in a cartoon w/ Native folk looking out over pristine lands, Euro settlers in the distance).

Oh, THAT Leonidas.

NRA. Funny.

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Ivy Matt wrote:
Anyway, I decided to try my hand at a design that ought to appeal to an audience complementary to those who find the peace symbol design appealing. I’m not sure exactly what it’s saying, though: perhaps that the right of communities, families, and individuals to own a focus fusion device shall not be infringed. It may also be a gesture of defiance against corporate or government entities that feel threatened by the development of DPF fusion technology. Of course, it’s also somewhat ironic, because the DPF can’t be used as a weapon…can it?

As to the symbol you have here – in conjunction with your text (including words like “defiance” “threatened” and “weapon”) suddenly makes it look to me like a gatling gun, under a star – which makes it look like a stylized crescent and star. And “Come and take it” sounds like a threat/dare.

I’m thinking expansion is the way to go. Perhaps it’s best to have lots of symbols (“symbol proliferation, not nuclear pro…”), the way Absolut Vodka does it, or google. Let it be personalized. Saturate the spheres with multiple images and ideas.

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Brian H wrote: It occurs to me, tho’, that the image is physically false; the alphas don’t spray out at 30° angles. They chase each other in a tight beam! Fortunately for the purposes of electrical generation.

So I’m afraid the logo will have to be redesigned with the 3 Helium nuclei all in a row. :cheese:

It’s also not to scale.

This is a representation of aneutronic fusion of pB11 in a generic sense, not tied to a specific method.

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Breakable wrote: What about spreading this message a little further?
While I am all for limiting board member to the current FFS active members,
maybe attracting new members and involving them is also a good idea.
Is it not part of the “Fall Call for Support” action?

Actually, I didn’t post this on the notice that went out to everyone. I shall do so in the next email. I will also list other activities people can get involved in.

I was also going outside FFS for board members. This is why I posted it in the bridgestar website. Generally, nonprofit organizations try to get people of good reputation or means to be on their boards. This helps with funding, as foundations and grantmakers first look at your board to see if they know anyone on it. Kind of a big club thing. Very much about the network.

Of course, external candidates would have to become members before being elected to the board. And we have to have a clearer idea of their role.

PS:I am considering to apply, but I am very busy as is. Anyone else thinking that as well?

Busy people are the best! : )

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Just got a comment that putting the peace sign upside down is like flying a flag upside down – it’s a signal of distress or the opposite of peace.

However, looking at this site – http://www.teachpeace.com/peacesymbolhistory.htm

Ken Kolsbun, author of the book Peace: The Biography of a Symbol, reported that Holtom expressed regret in not designing the peace symbol with the joyful lifting of arms towards the sky. For most of Holtom’s life he would draw only the upright peace symbol. Holtom requested that the upright peace symbol be placed on his tombstone in Kent, England. As shown by the picture of his tombstone, his wish was unfortunately ignored.

Holtom’s wish that the peace symbol connotation of despair be changed to joy is illustrated by the picture on the right. When the peace symbol is inverted the letter “N” becomes the semaphore code for “U” which could mean universal disarmament.

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Also, what was the specific text that was deleted? Did you submit it? What was objectionable? It is probably easily modified.

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