Check out the 9 minute movie on the Electric Grid with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Nova Science Now.

Now you know!

The Library of Congress carries Ben Franklin action figures!  Who knew.  A classic muse for those who experiment with electricity.

Help us find a better explanation than “because Quantum Mechanics says so.”

Learn all about electricity at Allaboutcircuits.com.  Thanks to Francisl for pointing this out.

By request, this is an attempt to make electricity, power and energy less abstract.

As with many other nonprofit organizations, the Focus Fusion Society wants to leverage “social media.”  We’ve all heard about “viral marketing”.  We’d love to get the idea of aneutronic fusion and the LPP experiments to spread virally. 

But how does that happen?  Do we have to develop an “aneutronic fusion virus”?  Find people who are good at spreading viruses?

How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?  And why do we have to screw it in anyway?  There’s no compelling engineering reason for the screw-in design.  It’s a vestigial quirk that rose out of the transition from gas light to electric light.

Today, the vast majority of energy is produced the same way it was at the end of the 19th century, by burning fossil fuels. We owe a great deal to these fossil fuels as they have have launched humanity into an unprecedented era of prosperity. However, this power source was not enough to propel everyone into prosperity. We’re literally “running out of gas” while billions of people still remain trapped in poverty.

The Energy Crisis*
*and the fusion footnote

According to many sources, the world today is caught in an escalating energy crisis. The crisis has profound economic, political and environmental impacts, which are steadily getting worse. But there is something missing from the old “Energy Crisis” equation, and that is Focus Fusion.

“The Matrix” movies have an odd take on energy conservation.  Apparently, humans “shut off the sun” by darkening the skies with permanent ink.  So permanent that even after hundreds of years the sun can’t penetrate it.