Promethius Fusion Makes The BBC
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:14 am
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Except of course for the fact that the article did not mention the word "Polywell" and quoted ITER people as if they were the One True(tm) fusion experts... Only people already in the know would realize the article is describing a homebrew Farnsworth-Hirsch IEC fusor, and only people already in the know would recognize the allusion to Bussard means they intend to build a Polywell after fundraising... The article was a nice enough human interest story, but skipped the part where they so much as name, much less describe, the tech involved.bennmann wrote:*thumbs up*
Just the kind of Press Polywell needs.
I have inside info that at least one of the orgs you mention is planning on a report.ladajo wrote:Funny, US Main Stream media has ignored FAMULUS for a while. In typical fashion, this should perculate over to CNN and FOX in a few days as a minor in the SCI-TECH stuff.
Crazy, they guy lives in NYC, and London Mainstream picks it up first.
The thing is most folks interested will look up "Robert Bussard" in the wiki and will find out about Polywell.krenshala wrote:I thought it odd (but not unexpected) how they focused on the negative perceptions of a "nuclear reactor in NYC" at the beginning and end of the article (what people will remember most) with only what appeared to me to be a token "but its safe and legal" mention-in-passing.
They did mention he was working on a device designed by "... the late Robert Bussard ..." Shouldn't they have included "Dr" in that (or am I being too critical on that one)?
Thats true. Dr. B was always one of my favorites growing up (erg ... makes me feel older than 40 saying that :/ ) just because of how he did things. Having more people learn about him that wouldn't have otherwise can only be a good thing.MSimon wrote:The thing is most folks interested will look up "Robert Bussard" in the wiki and will find out about Polywell.krenshala wrote:I thought it odd (but not unexpected) how they focused on the negative perceptions of a "nuclear reactor in NYC" at the beginning and end of the article (what people will remember most) with only what appeared to me to be a token "but its safe and legal" mention-in-passing.
They did mention he was working on a device designed by "... the late Robert Bussard ..." Shouldn't they have included "Dr" in that (or am I being too critical on that one)?
True enough. I guess tech-support is just a reflection of the rest of the world ... you typically only hear about the bad things, cause those having good things happen aren't usually bothering to tell anyone, they are busy partaking.MSimon wrote:As to the negative stuff - news sells on fear. Hope these days is a somewhat degraded commodity.
Giving Rick a heads up, assuming he hadn't already seen it, is the least we can do. The question then becomes whether a round of VC at this point is a good thing or not. It would take someone more "in the know" than me to tell for sure, however. I guess that at the least it gives Famulus (and probably Rick as well) some additional contacts for later, even if things don't pan out for VC now (for whatever reason).MSimon wrote:Still - people with cash will be interested and we should see another round of VC interest out of this. Esp. since the BBC is world wide.
I have given Rick a heads up.
If nothing else it should solidify and increase the number of Polywell fans.