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Its not about risks and profits from LPPs perspective, its about the credit purchasers. If I take the risk to help make the technology come through, I better be pretty sure I’m going to get the energy I need at that time cheaper than everybody else is doing. So the credits should be priced below what the energy would retail at were focus fusion working today. I’m not just going to pay to make everybody else proportionately more wealthy than myself by taking risks without getting an energy price bonus above that which everybody else does – It would be me making them rich so I should see a bit of that wealth.

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I would have thought anything but somewhat below the expected future price of focus fusion energy would be pointless. The whole point is that I have something to gain by buying now instead of then, and LPP has to lose something then in order to get me to give money *now* to the non-profit research firm that they want to prove their patent’s value in order that they can make many times more in the future.

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What about retailing energy credits with a covenant to pour the revenue into taking the focus fusion concept to market (and to justify and prove the costs to these customers regularly) and redeemable from any focus fusion licensee in the future if and only if the technology works? Is that legal? Essentially they buy the first n Joules off the focus fusion production line. I might consider buying a few Focus Fusion Joule Futures.

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Mark Lofts, So the second photon is observed to have been changed in less time after the decision to manipulate the first than it would take light to travel from the point at which the decision is made to where the second photon is observed to have been changed?

If not, one cannot say the information travelled faster than light, because one cannot say that the information travelled from the first photon to the second – all that can be said is that when a process modifies the first photon, the system as a whole (including the modification mechanism) demonstrates a modification of the second photon at the same time as the modification of the first photon.

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Oops, I appear to have got confused between kGBP (Great British Pound) and MGBP, that would put Didcot-A coal fired power station at $4.2 billion in todays money, so technological and process improvements have halved (-ish) the cost of a power station since then. So your cost of a power station is correct and mine wrong.

Still, is there any information on the study for the capital cost of a focus fusion plant available?

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Actually, the plants might be as small as 5 MW. But they won

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