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A single target would be much harder to hit that to use multiple targets. Pickens is heavily invested in wind and gas power. Fusion would undermine his investments.

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To get across the gap with Oprah you would need to do a lot of explaining:
1)Why is energy so important (eliminating poverty etc)
2)Why is fusion the best energy (cheap)
3)Not all atoms (radiation) are dangerous
Those points need to be pushed across to the general population and then they might be accepted by elites.
Still if you want to go after rich and powerful I would suggest to use “law of large numbers” to your advantage.
http://abstrusegoose.com/209

Basically to go after every powerful and rich person with a reasonable effort and maybe someone will get interested.
I am not sure how to define “Reasonable effort”, but I think this can be developed using incremental development model (from software design)
http://www.codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallen/downloads/incrementalModel.gif
As you probably don’t have enough resources then this effort should be crowd-sourced.
I probably cant be involved ATM – working day/night/and weekends catching up with a deadline.

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Headline suggestion:
The Power of the Sun in your hands

Subheadlines suggestion:
No radioactive contamination
No nuclear weapons
The sun that always shines

Notice to self:No spider-man theme

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I would like to see what observations they have and what is their theory and what attempts at falsification were made.
You can attempt to apply
“CARL SAGAN’S BALONEY DETECTION KIT”
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/baloney.html
to see how serious their claims are.

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emmetb wrote:
Apparently not. And this is the interesting part because it might represent a possibile loophole to get around the accredited investor rule: start a subsidiary company abroad which will offer shares, online, to whoever wants to invest (also smaller investors who would fall inbetween donators and investors: let’s call them invators 😉 ) this company would do nothing else but to reinvest the money back into the US, and fund LPP’s next round of experiments.
[edit – i just thought of an even better name for the innovators, we can call them: white-pawns… Man! I’m really on a roll here! 😉 ]

While I am clearly all about investment in LPP and fusion, I would caution about going trough the loopholes. They are for Rich and powerful – not for ordinary folk. You should discuss it with a lawyer – actually two lawyers minimally – one German and one from USA. Another issue is that the credibility of LPP will take a hit from this funding approach as well as the funds provided will probably just trickle rather than flow for some time.
And of course I would not be very surprised if our ball lightning manufacturers would get sacked by some government agency when they get a little more attention. This said – I would love to see this implemented and would love to be involved in investment promotion campaign.

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You do know that sun is driven by fusion reactions don’t you? 😉

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Thank you

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Brian H wrote: … The HMFE is a major sub-hypothesis putting its predictions on the line, here.

Please stop using acronyms which are impossible to look up

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emmetb wrote:
I was mainly interested in the fact that they seem to have no problem to keep emiting shares. Note they already emited for about half a million dollars which funded their initial experiments during the 1980s. Also, it seems there is no problem for a private person to invest in them.

Yes, this should be very interesting, in case of funding problems.
PS:Sorry for the strong language – but it just used to convey strong emotions (probably no children were harmed in this process)

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Brian H wrote:
And then a new matchhead is positioned within micrometers of the correct spot, and repeat. Uh-huh. The whole project is whacked.

They probably though about that, with their laser rulers and such….

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Fusion experiment seem to pop like mushrooms after rain. This is just a simulation, but I still expect a breakthrough any day now…

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Still NIF is cheaper, smaller than ITER and can succeed sooner.

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AaronB wrote: …
It amazes me how some projects get millions in funding when the science behind them is questionable at best. Other projects (like this one) struggle to get mainstream attention and funding when the ideas behind them are sound. Fortunately for LPP, our investors are a pretty intelligent and fore-thinking lot, and have seen this project as a good bet. I just wish a few more people like that would come out of the woodwork right about now.

I guess this the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarcation_problem

Basically there is no way to determine which science is sound or non sound in advance and the only way of moving forward is to form hypothesis and falsify them. You cant even validate a hypothesis!

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This is ****** crazy techno-babble and pseudo-science. How do i buy stock?
[Such language. – Moderator]

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Ok, finally we have something concrete. As per email from Rezvan some images on flicker site are cc licensed and those can be uploaded to wikipedia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/focusfusion/
Note the reverse c image indicating share-alike license (when you hover it, it said so in the tool-tip).
Just note that Rezvan does not like cc copyrighting the images with people over privacy concerns, so please let him know in case people images are cc licensed instead of sharing those.

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