Rally in Washington this Sat 301010 - fusion research cuts
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:27 pm
just received this email braodcast from Focus Fusion - calling for support of a rally in Washington USA, this comming Saturday, against the cuts in US funding of fusion (non-mainstream) projects.
heres a link to the page on FF's site: http://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/a ... n_funding/
heres the email:
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Dear Focus Fusion Society Friends and Members,
Hello and Happy Monday!
Rally | Case for Fusion | Free Fusion Designs | LPPX Webinar | Jacking the Fusion Strat | Order of magnitude
Join us at the Rally to Restore (Fusion) Sanity
John Shellito and I are going to be at the Rally To Restore (Fusion) Sanity, which Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have graciously hosted on our behalf.
OK, they have no idea. Our plan is to infiltrate - nay, inFUSE - the rally.
I’m posting this item first because it’s time sensitive: The rally is October 30 - This Saturday! In Washington DC. More info.
We’d love to see you there! If you’re going, let us know! If you aren’t, but your friends are, tell ‘em to join us! We’ll form a fusion “flash mob”.
Aside from being fun, what purpose does attending a rally on the mall serve? Somebody has to make the…
Case for Diversified Fusion Funding
In case you missed it, here’s some sad news on fusion policy.
The Rally sounds like as good a place as any to get our feet wet with this sort of activity.
Now, if you’re going to go to a rally, you’re going to want some signs. Feel free to make your own, or print some out from our site:
Free Fusion Designs to make great SIGNS!
Glen Millam and a few others have made their fusion-themed artwork available, so help yourself to images and print up fusion stuff galore! Feel free to modify and personalize the images and post your pictures. Send us a link!
There’s a lot more artwork available from Glenn, Torulf Greek, and others (see, for example, Zapkitty’s “get fusion” sign).
I have yet to upload all the images. Working on it! Under-staffed!
And keep it going. Well after the rally, we’d like to see a profusion of your fusion imagery evolving and proliferating and turning up in unexpected places. Fusion gnomes traveling the world….
Oooh! I just had a sign idea. A thermometer - put “cold fusion” way down near the bottom, “you are here” just above that, a volcano up higher, the sun, NIF, tokamaks, and above that - DPF/pB11! Will this be a good tool to explain? Experiment!
LPPX Webinar
For those of you who haven’t seen them yet - LPPX hosted an informative webinar. Derek has edited the webinar down to a series of four videos, available here. Check it out!
Spreading the word via Social Media aka “jacking the fusion strat”
Speaking of not having heard of the videos - we’re trying to make it easier for people to spread the word. Every post on the site has buttons to facilitate spreading the word (retweet, share, etc). We’ve also prominently placed buttons on each page to enable you to follow us in various ways. Please take advantage of these buttons. Why? Why not?
Note that our “Case for Diversified Fusion Funding” story was re-posted by someone on Reddit, and we got one of those handy visitor spikes.
So much to do
Of course, when those visitors come, some parts of the site are woefully under-presentable. We’ve been chipping away at the backlog.
I want to thank all the members who have been giving us great suggestions. The vision is getting clearer. Soon this will translate into a clearer website. We have yet to implement many ideas, but we love feedback, so keep it coming! Get involved!
We continue working to improve the site. We want to make it easier for you to see all the ways to jump in. There is a vision here. It may not be obvious, but I assure you it’s cool.
Fall Support Drive: an order of magnitude to go!
A big THANK YOU to those of you who contributed to the Fall Call for Support. Without you, I shudder to think.
We’ve raised approximately $2500 in the first round. If we raise another $2,500, we’ll be just one order of magnitude short of our goal! This seems like a lot, but if you compare it to a typical fusion project which needs several orders of magnitude for breakeven - we’re doing great! So keep it coming and we’ll get there!
Donate!
Thanks again for your role in advancing focus fusion, aneutronic fusion, and the diversification of fusion research.
Rezwan Razani
Executive Director
Focus Fusion Society
http://focusfusion.org
Follow us on twitter @focusfusion
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heres a link to the page on FF's site: http://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/a ... n_funding/
heres the email:
###############
Dear Focus Fusion Society Friends and Members,
Hello and Happy Monday!
Rally | Case for Fusion | Free Fusion Designs | LPPX Webinar | Jacking the Fusion Strat | Order of magnitude
Join us at the Rally to Restore (Fusion) Sanity
John Shellito and I are going to be at the Rally To Restore (Fusion) Sanity, which Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have graciously hosted on our behalf.
OK, they have no idea. Our plan is to infiltrate - nay, inFUSE - the rally.
I’m posting this item first because it’s time sensitive: The rally is October 30 - This Saturday! In Washington DC. More info.
We’d love to see you there! If you’re going, let us know! If you aren’t, but your friends are, tell ‘em to join us! We’ll form a fusion “flash mob”.
Aside from being fun, what purpose does attending a rally on the mall serve? Somebody has to make the…
Case for Diversified Fusion Funding
In case you missed it, here’s some sad news on fusion policy.
The Rally sounds like as good a place as any to get our feet wet with this sort of activity.
Now, if you’re going to go to a rally, you’re going to want some signs. Feel free to make your own, or print some out from our site:
Free Fusion Designs to make great SIGNS!
Glen Millam and a few others have made their fusion-themed artwork available, so help yourself to images and print up fusion stuff galore! Feel free to modify and personalize the images and post your pictures. Send us a link!
There’s a lot more artwork available from Glenn, Torulf Greek, and others (see, for example, Zapkitty’s “get fusion” sign).
I have yet to upload all the images. Working on it! Under-staffed!
And keep it going. Well after the rally, we’d like to see a profusion of your fusion imagery evolving and proliferating and turning up in unexpected places. Fusion gnomes traveling the world….
Oooh! I just had a sign idea. A thermometer - put “cold fusion” way down near the bottom, “you are here” just above that, a volcano up higher, the sun, NIF, tokamaks, and above that - DPF/pB11! Will this be a good tool to explain? Experiment!
LPPX Webinar
For those of you who haven’t seen them yet - LPPX hosted an informative webinar. Derek has edited the webinar down to a series of four videos, available here. Check it out!
Spreading the word via Social Media aka “jacking the fusion strat”
Speaking of not having heard of the videos - we’re trying to make it easier for people to spread the word. Every post on the site has buttons to facilitate spreading the word (retweet, share, etc). We’ve also prominently placed buttons on each page to enable you to follow us in various ways. Please take advantage of these buttons. Why? Why not?
Note that our “Case for Diversified Fusion Funding” story was re-posted by someone on Reddit, and we got one of those handy visitor spikes.
So much to do
Of course, when those visitors come, some parts of the site are woefully under-presentable. We’ve been chipping away at the backlog.
I want to thank all the members who have been giving us great suggestions. The vision is getting clearer. Soon this will translate into a clearer website. We have yet to implement many ideas, but we love feedback, so keep it coming! Get involved!
We continue working to improve the site. We want to make it easier for you to see all the ways to jump in. There is a vision here. It may not be obvious, but I assure you it’s cool.
Fall Support Drive: an order of magnitude to go!
A big THANK YOU to those of you who contributed to the Fall Call for Support. Without you, I shudder to think.
We’ve raised approximately $2500 in the first round. If we raise another $2,500, we’ll be just one order of magnitude short of our goal! This seems like a lot, but if you compare it to a typical fusion project which needs several orders of magnitude for breakeven - we’re doing great! So keep it coming and we’ll get there!
Donate!
Thanks again for your role in advancing focus fusion, aneutronic fusion, and the diversification of fusion research.
Rezwan Razani
Executive Director
Focus Fusion Society
http://focusfusion.org
Follow us on twitter @focusfusion
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