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Matt’s example seems to be pretty good.

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I agree with you,
actually I think any extreme is usually bad.

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A very clear explanation how is GW evidence gathered, analyzed and interpreted starts in 2 minutes, by energy secretary Dr. Steven Chu

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Rezwan:I like your idea, but it will take more resources than FF to implement. Maybe we can do it after singularity ? 😉

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Something simple, implementable and easy to get addicted to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD69PAIqiYo
Here is the graphics:
http://imgur.com/o6HM7&gbXZZ;

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Clearly you are not thinking about next generation technologies. I am trying to avoid speculation,
but I don’t think there is a hard limit on radiative output depending on an outside surface area.
You can probably sacrifice efficiency, and use heat-pumps, light-pumps (yet to be invented), light-pathways and make your radiator 3d.
Plasma venting is also an option, but maybe not-necessary.

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Better radiators can do better job at expelling heat. Just because these technologies are not available today, it does not mean it wont be tomorrow.
The alveolar surface area of lungs (one person) is 30-100 m2 — often described as the size of a tennis court. Think about how much heat can this surface radiate.

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A simplification of Fusion wars that would have a chance at implementation and playability.
Players perspective:
It is a company simulator. You have no GUI to look around, just some screens with graphs and numbers.
Players see a window for:
market share,
popularity (people know about),
credibility (people that know believe in it),
amount of fusion FUD in the news,
reactors running and info (V1, V2, wear and tear, efficiency, sabotaged… etc)
technology development (v0, v1),
fusion labs information (rooster, status, work),
investors list and status for each (fearful, satisfied, greedy),
Events list (Germany bans fusion development to protect their renewable energy market),
In each window they can observe the information or make some actions (raise money, build reactor, release PR). And see what events happen in the charts or events window.

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Fusion wars idea sounds interesting, but probably will take more effort than developing the fusion itself. This is how I would imagine it from player perspective (a cross between RPG and SIM):
You start with a prototype reactor, a city run by fossil fuels and you goal is to make it fusion powered.
First you need to get money to build your first power plant.
You visit investors in banks/factories/offices then you must “figure out” what each investor wants,
by looking around and asking other people about them and chatting with them.
Getting a meeting would a quest. Then after you raise money you order to build your reactor (you can build a factory later) and get someone to agree to place it there.
Then you can start raising more money, or use the ones from electricity sold to build up the presence. Fight the saboteurs, lawyers, misguided hippies, and evil capitalists.
It is possible to make this more RPG or more SIM to simplify the implementation, but still the effort seems sizable. SIM might be more simple than RPG.

Regarding PET-ROCK-LIKE projects, I don’t see what possibly can the player perspective be in relation to focus-fusion.

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I play a little farm-ville. It is as dumb as it gets: You click everything you can. The only thing is to choose the crop and not to forget to come back harvest it before it spoils.
If you want to make something smarter, you should probably think about
http://fold.it/portal/

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First you probably should define it from player perspective : what is it there to play with.
Then define it from programmers perspective : how the game responds to player actions
The rest it just the implementation details…

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Unless someone will get this to work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive

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Generator is not a magnetic potential to electricity converter. It is a magnetic flux into electricity converter.
You can create static magnetic potential by running electricity trough a wire (coil). Naturally a reverse device would be interesting.
Regarding this demo, how was the device advertised? I did not get any clear definition from the video.
If it would be promoted as ZPE then I would say it is misleading. But as far as I got they just demo the device, without defining what it is.

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I think its much to early to talk about the onion, and especially its design. Its yet to be proven as a x-ray to electricity converter. I believe it is possible to reach 50-60-70-maybe even 80 % efficiency in this conversion, but it is probable the final device will look nothing like the onion, especially when no efficiency has been demonstrated yet (as far as i know).

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Its fusion, just the sun kind 😉
Still this is probably just the catalyst in the electrolyzer, nothing to do with solar cells themselves.

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