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Its migration, not crowdfunding 😛
But yes possibly both and lack of time.

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Everyone, please note the new Landing page is temporary.
You should be able to access the forums trough the link:
https://focusfusion.org/index.php/forums/

And the list of articles here:
https://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/category/

Feel free to get in touch and ask any questions:
https://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/toc/contact_us

This update will also go out to the mailing list

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Yes, it is a different organization. I do understand the confusion, it is because branding is not worked on properly.
We are partnering in most ventures, but they are for-profit and we are non-profit.

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As mentioned before, we need to have a person doing organizational outreach. This is an excellent opportunity to grow your network. Any volunteers?

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Thanks to Zapkitty this should be now fixed!

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If really went for upgrade then I would like to see threads that span like a tree rather in linear fashion. Also up-votes and seeing the highest-voted comments. I guess Reddit is my ideal forum. Here is a sample:

Has net energy gain (Q > 1) ever been demonstrated, even on a scale impractical for commercial development? I'm having trouble finding a definitive answer online
by infusion

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Thanks Nakile for being the first to comment. Certainly it is a challenge to be precise, educative and promotional. We cannot tell the whole story in a few words, what we can do is make people think and get interested.

Here is one meme in the space theme (edit, fixed a typo):

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Popular quotes work as well:
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

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Personally I really like the space connection. Lifting things up costs energy. So to make it upbeat I would probably say:
Fusion can enable the space exploration stage of our Civilization!

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>The latest ARPA-E solicitation also mentions LENR
Yes, you are right.
WHAT THE FUCK?
Then the next question would be: why did they exclude perpeetum-mobile?

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Unfortunately it also mentions cold fusion (LENR) which does not add to credibility

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Great to hear LPP is out and about!
PS:Here is the presentation
http://fire.pppl.gov/FPA13_Lerner_plasma_focus.pdf

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Personally I believe for something good to happen in this area a person has to lead the outreach to government, non-profit and commercial organisations. Unfortunately there is no one doing that (seriously) at the moment as far as I know. It is a catch 22 as neither FFS or LPP has funding for a dedicated resource. I have only time to help with website and community maintenance. I got in touch with X-Prize foundation, and they were certainly interested, but am not able to persistently push any efforts in this area just due to lack of time. I am working full-time in biotech startup, studying in university for masters, have some business to manage as well as well as a large family and kids with disabilities. There is a huge opportunity for personal involvement and growth here which can benefit FFS, LPP and the rest of Fusion Community, which if not developed in full will go to waste.

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I believe I will use this thread for more questions. Here is one I just got today, feel free to answer or clarify:
I have been tinkering with different ideas for fusion reactors for some years mostly on the computer. I came upon an idea that seems to have interesting possibilities. I have tested this on a computer to some extent and have not found a reason that it doesn’t work. It seems that it might be possible to make a superconducting magnet without the need for super cooled coils of wire. On the computer it is possible to put charged particles into orbit around a charged metal sphere. There is a limit on the number of particles based on the charge capacitance of the sphere. And a ring of such particles will tend to want to disperse because of Coulomb repulsion. But what interests me is the possibility of vastly increasing the number of particles in the ring by neutralizing the ring with particles of an opposite charge. On the computer it is possible to put particles of an opposite charge into very small orbits around the orbiting ring of particles. (if the main ring of particles is at a sufficient distance from the metal sphere, the ring exerts a much larger force on a particle than the sphere) Putting one particle into orbit has the effect of neutralizing one particle in the ring allowing another particle to be added to the main ring. There is still the problem of Coulomb repulsion in the ring. But particles can also be put into oscillation through the ring. (at a sufficient velocities, the electrons are not able to be captured by ions in the ring.) If there were an equal number of particles oscillating through the ring then this would neutralize the Coulomb forces and allow the addition of more and more particles. What would be the limit on the number of charges that could be put into orbit? It seems that it would be possible to build up huge magnetic fields in this way because of course the ring of particles would create a magnetic field (ions in the ring travel in the millions of meters per second and also present the possibility of fusion in the ring at those speeds). The oscillating particles moving through the ring in random directions would have their magnetic fields cancelled out. There would be some sort of losses involved with the electrons moving through the ring of ions. But compared to the energy necessary to drive a current through a copper wire it seems that it could be much more efficient.

I would like to ask one question. Is it possible to trap a plasma inside of a straight solenoid with positively charged plates at each end.? It seems that there would be a large flow of electrons towards the plates at first but soon the electron depleted plasma would acquire an overall positive charge which would prevent the escape of more electrons. This positive bias should keep more electrons from fleeing resulting in a somewhat positively charged plasma but a plasma that was still neutral enough for it to not expand from Coulomb repulsion if there was sufficient magnetic field present.

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Hi Malaga,
Please make sure to do a proper PR release if you want to get noticed. You can even do it for free as long as someones authors it for you:
http://www.vitispr.com/blog/free-press-release-sites/

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