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by Nanos
Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:37 am
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: Allen and Gates as philanthropists of fusion energy
Replies: 15
Views: 41579

Diesel electric, though I did suggest they think about building a GEOHIL geothermal plant.

http://www.sealandnews.com has what appears their offical forum there.
by Nanos
Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:49 pm
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: Allen and Gates as philanthropists of fusion energy
Replies: 15
Views: 41579

Perhaps thats a good reason to build it someplace with less regulations.

I might suggest Sealand ;-)
by Nanos
Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:43 am
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: Allen and Gates as philanthropists of fusion energy
Replies: 15
Views: 41579

What do you think he meant by "the regulatory climate was too restrictive" ?
by Nanos
Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:48 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: Canada General Fusion
Replies: 10
Views: 27987

The first link there jlumartinez isn't working for me.
by Nanos
Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:42 pm
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: The Simons Foundation
Replies: 14
Views: 13157

Does that mean the foundation itself does not have the money in hand to spend today ?
by Nanos
Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:55 am
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: The Simons Foundation
Replies: 14
Views: 13157

Yes, I'm a bit confused, between, is it someone whose got the funds already, or someone who wants to help raise funds for him ? At the moment it sounds rather than stalled, only in the middle of negoations. Old people can be very tough when it comes to getting their own way :-) Whilst not wishing to...
by Nanos
Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:55 pm
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: The Simons Foundation
Replies: 14
Views: 13157

Offer more money perhaps to kick things along.
by Nanos
Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:56 am
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: The Simons Foundation
Replies: 14
Views: 13157

In that case, it sounds like he wants someone who understands his work.

Are you able to talk about the rebuffed effort ?
by Nanos
Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:14 am
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: The Simons Foundation
Replies: 14
Views: 13157

I think a 3rd option also exists, in that he wants to get on writing up his work to date and doesn't have time to waste talking to potential sources on the basis that probably most of them will at the end of the day, not be interested and just waste his time, of which he does not have a huge amount ...
by Nanos
Tue Aug 07, 2007 6:48 am
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: Allen and Gates as philanthropists of fusion energy
Replies: 15
Views: 41579

My money is on the already picked horse, its likely that most investors will not really understand enough about the subject to know the difference between which fusion approach really is any better than any other, so the money will go to whoever has the best/slickest/most expensive PR, the cutest bl...
by Nanos
Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:56 pm
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: Ebay or ..
Replies: 34
Views: 33212

I notice some 14,900 hits searching for your blog via google, any advice you can give on ways to get your URL spread around far and wide ?
by Nanos
Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:27 pm
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: Ebay or ..
Replies: 34
Views: 33212

Fingers crossed and good to hear of progress, if I may ask, was this through networking approach via friends of friends, or via cold calling ?
by Nanos
Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:14 pm
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: Ebay or ..
Replies: 34
Views: 33212

What level of funding are they talking about ?

1 to 5 mil ?

1 to 10 mil ?

1 to 50 mil ?

More ?
by Nanos
Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:52 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: Canada General Fusion
Replies: 10
Views: 27987

As a side note, if you look at Tri Alpha Energy, they managed to get themselves $40 million investment without a website! http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22595&hed=Startup+Chases+Nuclear+Fusion§or=Capital&subsector=VentureCapital Perhaps if we could learn what they did right, we might b...
by Nanos
Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:43 am
Forum: Fund-Raising
Topic: Ebay or ..
Replies: 34
Views: 33212

People with money like that know, that 9 out of 10 projects they back, will go to the wall, its the one out of 10 that makes them a lots of money. Now whilst most of them will only go for projects which look very promising, you can find the odd one whose willing to give it a go, even if its very hig...