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Yes, Andy Tech aka appan, you’ll need to write in complete sentences and just state your case/introduce your agenda in one clear post and put a link to a website rather than post these cryptic messages throughout our site. I’m going to go through and delete your posts next week Tuesday, that should give you the time to prove that you’re a human being that can communicate in standard English.

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Hey presto. Moved to Fusion Alternatives: General Discussion 🙂

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Hey Steve,

This forum is for the discussion of fusion and the many approaches thereto. You say:

Fusion, hot or cold or other wise will NEVER work and the reason is that there is no such thing as fusion.

So we’re going to have to put your topic here.

In the event that you choose to share your ideas on the web, don’t try to explain it here, but feel free to put a link from this post to your website of all new atomic physics.

Good luck!

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Fun post! We appreciate your enthusiasm and spirit of exploration. On the other hand it’s really important to keep the main part of this forum on topic with fusion. Once humanity gets fusion up and running there will be plenty of time to explore the most esoteric of energy alternatives. For now, we have moved your post to the esoteric energy section. Also, we encourage you to keep such posts brief and link back to a site that explains things. Thanks!

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Glenn Millam wrote: My research on the subject seems to say that most fusion projects out there have a 20-50 year research-to-commercial reactor plan. This project hopes to have a 6-10 year plan, maybe less if it can get better funding. Most will agree that there is a need for something with a faster roadmap, but most money is going into tokamaks.

Great! You’ve done some research. Any way you could find the time to post a list of the projects, a line of description, a website link, estimated time to net energy and to commercial reactor? (And others, feel free to chip in w/ your favorites)

Like:

1. Focus Fusion, hydrogen/boron fuel in a dense plasma focus, https://focusfusion.org/, 2-3 years (if funding), 7-10 years.
2. Tri-Alpha…etc.

It’s important to organize this information as we make the case for fusion technology prizes and lobby our representatives in office. A simple, handy consolidated list. The contenders.

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Hi Elling. Just moved your post from this thread to here. That thread was more about strategies to leverage weblog topics for awareness.

A discussion of global warming itself and ways to deal with it fits better in this environment section.

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Great! Although perhaps pointilism would convey the fuzziness better?

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Hi There! Just moved this post here from “Economics”. This is more about grant-seeking which falls under fundraising. The economic forums are about global economic issues and how fusion will affect markets, and how to best leverage economics to make the transition to a fusion economy.

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Thanks! For the props and the promotion efforts.

We’re working on the pictures. Still figuring out the “gallery” amenities of our system 🙂

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OK, I moved it to “Plasma Physics”. (Admins can do that. We have powers). Would you like to rename the “Plasma Physics” forum “Plasma Focus”? Or is it OK for both Plasma Focus and more general Plasma Physics topics to fall under this category?

Note: Per this message forum has been renamed:

I think plasma focus would be better. and have a less forbidding descripton–we want to welcome, not scare away lay types. I don’t think any technical discussions should be incomprehesnible to non-physicists. Hmmm, triple negative. Anyway everything should be understandable by everyone. Eric

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Why cafepress? It doesn’t take any capital to get started, if we go that route. http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/ – We just need a design saved as a PNG file that we upload to cafepress after we set up a store.

The T-shirt won’t make us money. It’s more for the publicity and building esprit de corps (sp?). We’ll get $1 or 2 per T-shirt sold. Cafepress gets most of the price. But again, no overhead for us, so that’s nice.

As for design:

We’re thinking one image on the front. One shirt can be a plasmoid, one can be the DPF. Or maybe concepts like boron-hydrogen (see attached image below). Also, each shirt will have the url of our site on it.

We need some taglines, too: e.g., “Fusion Now!” and whatever else. “Fool for Fusion” sounds catchy because of the alliteration but, for obvious reasons, many people will shy away from the word “fool”… or anything that also has a connotation of “crazy”

Some have suggested if we want a sense of excitement or adventure use “Fusion Frontier” or “Fusion Future” or “Fusion Fan” or “Fusion Fever”…

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We’ve had a lot of offers to translate various articles into a foreign language, notably Japanese and French.

Basically, to accomodate several languages, we need two things, actually 3:

1) A volunteer to translate the articles on the site;
2) An editor/reviewer for quality control of translation (heck, we won’t know what they’re saying, who knows what we’d end up with on the site);
3) A way to incorporate that into the website.

So…without foreign language volunteers, we won’t have any foreign language content.

As to adding it to the site, with the content management system we’re using, it’s possible that we could add foreign language fields to each entry, and then a button you can click on to switch to the language of your choice. That seems like the best way to organize it – keeping the article and its translations all in the same entry of the database. The disadvantage is that it will get a bit heavy for loading time if each article has five different language versions (my understanding is it loads all the fields and only shows the ones you ask it to).

I’ll check on display options, but in the meantime, without translators, the effort is stalled.

The cool thing is that this forum can handle foriegn languages. Here, for example, is some Persian:

سلام! چه خبر؟

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