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annodomini2 wrote: Unlimited is inaccurate

For the tag line, I personally like: “Always positive and never neutral!”

“No neutrons means no problems.”

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Now Lerner-hakase is taunting me… 🙂

Lerner wrote:
FFS has started some competitions and I suggest there be a competition for who can get focus fusion or related subjects on the most discussions. We can give out certificates for getting on 5, 10, 20 forums. We can have special prizes for the most forums in given category—environmental forums, news sites (one comment on New Scientist site probably got us hundreds of new visitors to our website.) We can give extra points for those who get responses to their posts.

Recipe fpr disaster… if not handled correctly.

Forget the contests… you’ll appear to have both co-opted the shill techniques that the plutocrats have adopted and, if things work out with that particular plan as I suspect they will, you’ll have rendered “FoFu’ers” into the new “Paulites” or “Obots” of the blogosphere.

Can forum outreach be done without such drawbacks?

Certainly.

I’ve engaged in a bit of it myself… but placement, timing, and suitability are everything.

More after I finish dinner…

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Being contrary 🙂

p +11B→3x4He + 8.7MeV won’t solve all our problems,
just all our problems involving energy and resources.

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Simplicity is the key to a good sig… especially when you can easily add your concept to an existing sig without getting overly complicated. Excessive verticality is a no-go.

Simplest of all would be the actual text, something along the lines of

p +11B→3x4He + 8.7MeV

… or somesuch…

…
… …
… … … but since I’m already here you can try starting with this as a base and work it out from there…

PNP NPNP
P + NPNPN –> PNPN –> PNPN + PNPN + PNPN + 8.7 Mev
NPN NPNP

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You’re taunting me, aren’t you? 🙂

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vansig wrote: Governments can control inflation (and deflation) by manipulating the money supply. To prevent deflation, they can always just print more money.

… but that would show that government can be effective sans plutocrats, and said same will not permit such a demonstration now that they’ve openly seized power.

You’re talking about a group that just had their puppets in the White House and on Capitol Hill deeply slash spending and thus [em]reduce [/em]demand in the middle of an economic catastrophe that demands the exact opposite.

Not because they don’t know better, but because the upper tier of the elites regards the relatively minor effects of the recession on their immense holdings as well worth enduring in order to cement their grip on power. And, for those who haven’t noticed, this level of corruption is not limited to the U.S.A.

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Duke Leto wrote:

OK, I’m proved wrong, foci it is then.

As to Fusion alternatives emerging, I’d like to know what they’re going to be. Bussard’s Polywell? Needs a steam turbine.

Errr… Last I knew EMC2 was working towards aneutronic fusion of Boron 11, same as LPP. Direct conversion, no turbines. Did somerhing change?

Interesting. How would it work? Wouldn’t the positive ions just fly off in all directions and not be captured by the superconducting rings? The FF style decelerator I understand, but in this case the Polywell would have to be both a accelerator and decelerator and I don’t understand how that would be possible/ Please enlighten me.

Getting power from direct conversion of alpha particles to usable current has been researched since the 1960’s, at least, mostly in the concept of small, very long lived “batteries” and spacecraft power supplies.

Apparently Polywell intends to use the “Venetian Blind” concept which was posited as an addon to neutronic fusion reactors in order to recover additional energy.

http://www.askmar.com/Fusion_files/Venetian Blind.pdf

Forum software doesn’t like the space in the url, copy and paste.

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Duke Leto wrote: OK, I’m proved wrong, foci it is then.

As to Fusion alternatives emerging, I’d like to know what they’re going to be. Bussard’s Polywell? Needs a steam turbine.

Errr… Last I knew EMC2 was working towards aneutronic fusion of Boron 11, same as LPP. Direct conversion, no turbines. Did somerhing change?

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Just a correction: Obama and the “Democrats” heading up the national party are all DLC-Third Way neoliberal supply-siders and Obama is actually an outright Reaganite.

This is relevant to your premise in that the GOP isn’t “stopping” them from implementing proper Keynesian measures to deal with the current crisis much less the advent of aneutronic fusion. The Demwits in charge actually believe the plutocratic party line and wouldn’t implement a proper stimulus package even if they could… because they didn’t when they had the means and used the GOP as an excuse.

In fact, Obama has used the GOP as an excuse for a lot of the crap he’s pulled since he took office. A corporate tool par excellence.

So that’s three strikes against proper handling of the new technology… both parties and therefore the government are part of a true plutocratic oligarchy.

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JimmyT wrote:
The only reason all nations have supported this agreement is because it is a practical impossibility at this point. Nations one and all will quickly abandon this treaty under one pretense or another if it becomes viable.

… but if the paradigm shift that enables this is the advent of aneutronic fusion then the reason for colonizing in the first place, the resources, becomes a non-issue in turn.

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Stories have said that soon a ring, One Ring, a Ring of Fire will be forged in the fires of Mount Mini-Doom… in Little Mordor, where the X-rays fly…

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Brian H wrote: Getting back to FoFu , 2 months since last update. Will there be any info leaks in the foreseeable future?

Well, from the tweeting of the hobbits [em]something[/em] is happening over in Little Mordor…

LPPX TWELVE trigger heads for Mortal Physicists doomed to break one last night, but all fixed now! FoFu is preparing to fire!
11 minutes ago

LPPX twelve spark plugs for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone
about 19 hours ago

LPPX twelve upgraded high voltage switches for the Elven-kings under the sky
about 20 hours ago

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… and besides, with fusion we can get whatever resources we need economically from current U.S. holdings.

There’s a lot of stuff in the continental U.S. that could be obtained here instead of imported if cheap, problem-free power was available.

And that applies to other nations and the resources in locations they already have access to as well.

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Breakable wrote: I find your lack of imagination disturbing. Believe me we will be able to colonize EVERYTHING once we have fusion power.

Sure! Even in the Antarctic ice!

… as long as the cities are flexible enough and mobile enough 🙂

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JimmyT wrote: There may well be good reasons to colonize Antarctica. Think of the vast mineral wealth which surely exists on that largely unexplored Continent. Unexplored at least from a geological standpoint.

Yes, and that’s why various treaties have placed Antarctica off-limits… too keep ourselves from destroying the continent, and ourselves, warring over those resources.

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