In light of the Google "Project 10 to the 100", I assume that publicity would now be a good thing. I thought I saw someone quote Dr. Nebel saying that the review was in, the results were promising, and they're simply waiting for the Navy evaluation on where to go next.
If I understand correctly from the Fund-Raising forum, bobshipp has submitted a proposal to fund EMC2 to build a WB-8 dodecahedron device. While the proposal may not get funding from Google, it ought to get decent publicity. It would be nice to get some sort of honorable mention.
I only discovered polywell fusion a few weeks ago; I'm not a nuclear physics person. It's taken me weeks in my spare time to scratch the surface. If I'm struggling through this, I can imagine how much slower a concerned, but non-physics person is going to be.
I believe the amount of presentation time one could expect with a venture capitalist is about two minutes. (Actually, "elevator talks" are even shorter.) When members of the Google advisory panel prepare to consider topics, that is probably the amount of time they will give each topic. (Hopefully, some of them have already been exposed to Dr. Bussard's presentation at Google.)
Back in the other forum, I noted the following:
But the publicity will not simply happen by itself. There needs to be materials which are aimed at:
1. general public -- how does this affect them
2. venture capitalists -- what needs to be funded, what are the risks
3. science geeks -- how does this compare with other fusion approaches, links to references; this can probably be subdivided further.
A 30-60 second YouTube video for the general public would also be good. It should point somewhere for more info; the question is, where?
I know people here have various websites with good info, but I don't know of anything that helps the new reader (in one of the above three categories) quickly get to the part they're interested in. Is there anything? I hate to just point the new person to the Wikipedia entry, although the entry there is not bad.
