Reprinted from the LPPX October 17, 2011 Report.

Thanks Zach Weiner for another cool pro-fusion cartoon!

aka “The Fracking Song”

More reasons to fund fusion.

A big Thank You to Sascha Becher aka Stereotron for producing this stereoscopic 3D poster of the electrodes of the Dense Plasma Focus. 

Please feel free to download and print copies of this poster for your pro-fusion events. Also, feel free to design more posters, collages, fine art, mixed media extravaganzas.  As we did with Stereotron, we are happy to supply you with the full sized raw images for manipulation. 

Just watched “Top 5 Things I love about the WEBB telescope.” 

I think I’m in love.

For those of us struggling to build the bridge to fusion, Neil deGrasse Tyson has some pointers. 

In his appearance on the Daily Show on Tuesday, he said that explorers on the frontier of science sometimes need to make stuff up to advance research. 

He wasn’t advocating faking science.  And after watching the special, it’s also clear he wasn’t advocating painting a rosy picture.  The “made up stuff” on the show includes a relentless visualization of all the things that can go wrong in space.  How can we apply this to the fusion endeavor?

Why is fusion underfunded? 

Does it have something to do with a study that shows people contribute less to something when the analytical part of their mind is activated?

If the study is right, then public support for fusion is pretty much doomed at the gate.

In a country song, a youth once asked an old cowboy about the secret to life.  The response was “Older whiskey, younger women, faster cars, more money.” 

This line captures the essence of the ideal fusion program.

Apparently, x makes it exy.

Fusion is “oversold” but undervalued.  One of the main goals of the Focus Fusion Society is to reframe fusion.