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If we wont have access to a large team of full-time developers at our disposal any results would probably be marginal or would take a lot of time to materialize so the ideas need to be extremely simple to produce something.
Even a single full-time developer cannot pull something that of a sort that is done by commercial companies. On the other hand there are some nice INDY/Open source games that although don’t have advanced graphics or music try to compete on originality basis.
Definitely we can’t even pull it off on a INDY level, but if we are able to concentrate our efforts on finding the right (simple/orginal/interesting) idea for a concept, then we might make a start that others would like to capitalize on (open source).
Still to kick start an open source game development community we need at least 1 full time (or at least part time) developer that is fully focused on this idea.

Some inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koZUS2h-Yzc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress

Something else to look into are game-jam events, but this will also not produce anything usable in a fast fashion and there is no control over the final result.

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It depends what kind of formations the discharge would form. It can form “U” type shapes, or it can form “^” type shapes.

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The fusion film and music festival

Lets start with pictures, pictures/drawings would be nice, eh? How we like to say in Cyprus:”siga siga”.

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I will send an email to the Mars Society, I hope we can exchange visions as well as resources

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It seems raising damage resistance is more affordable than any kind of/healing/adaptation/liquid state electrode

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Another option is to raise damage resistance:
making liquefaction/vaporization temperature much higher,
reduce the material resistance,
distributing the effect over higher area,
making temperature distribution more instant.
So the technical approacher I see are:
1)changing the material,
2)making it less thin,
3)super-cool the blade-edge down to superconducting temperature to distribute temperature instantly make vaporization harder due to low temperature and reduce the electrical resistance,
4)spin the blade edge at a high speed to make distribution more even.

I would go with
1)Material to nickel-iron, chromium, yttrium, iridium, platinum, tungsten, or palladium 2) see if you can reduce the thinning of the edge
leaving 3,4 to better funded stages

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It either has to be dynamic, healing or non-solid-state. Liquid state on the other hand would need a separate project to implement, actually any fix would.

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JimmyT wrote:

Projections and predictions are easy to make, but they’re only as good as the facts they are based on. ..

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So from a forecasting standpoint: our short term predictions tend to overstate progress. But long term our predictions tend to understate progress.
I would tend to agree with Aaron on this one. You can clearly see from mid-age posters that a lot of over-optimistic predictions failed to materialize
(flying cars, automated houses, futuristic cities, outer-planet colonies),
but they would have materialized in case fission became the source of plentiful, cheap and safe power, but it did not.

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Definitelly, thank you for a clear explanation. Yes, we definitely need more of everything: more members, more participation, more activity, more news, etc…
About time we kick this revolution into overdrive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w66FXy6UHS0

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“The page for the multiple experiments is here: https://focusfusion.org/index.php/wiki/Catalog_of_Experiments/” seems to be empty

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Also secondary loop reduces the efficiency,
gamma radiation shielding makes reactor human-unservisable,
also I am not sure if enough breeding (neutron source) material is available to start this approach on a large scale.

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Wesley Bruce wrote: ..the world isn’t short of food…

While this is off-topic, do you have a reference for it?
I am wondering because I like to state myself that there is not enough resources to supply the need of the world and reducing inequality would not resolve current issues.

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This is certainly an exciting approach.
What would you want to do next with it?
From your perspective I would probably get a provisional patent, design an experiment and approach some universities for funding or alternatively and try to raise VC for patenting and research.
Of course you don’t have much time after filing the provisional patent – only 12 months, so you should move quickly.
It depends on your credentials and connections which way is more approachable.
I don’t want to discourage you, but dealing with beams seems to require more advanced technologies than the current DPF approach, so definitely you would need a much better funding as well as a larger technical base. That might seem like a disadvantage, but on the other hand the complicated ITER approach has many times the funding than much simpler DPF, so I would believe if you estimate results in more than 50 years, you will get no resistance from fossil fuel think tanks and that means easier access to funding.
Good luck and keep us posted.
PS:I would also suggest to visit http://www.talk-polywell.org/ to find more friends.

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If you have a hypothesis, think about the falsification requirement.

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Explained causation is too far away down the road IMO, first you need good models for describing the process. Then you can gather the data adjust the models accordingly and look for causes.
In any case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
will have something to say about the accuracy of your predictions.

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