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Google's new Project 10^100 is an idea contest (not unlike the X PRIZE Foundation's "Crazy Green Ideas") offering up to $10M to fund ideas that will better the world.

Ideas are submitted in text form (with an optional 30-second video) by October 20th. Public voting will narrow the submissions down to 100, and then an advisory board will choose five final ideas.

Here's a news story on the project.

Polywell research would be well-suited to both of these contests, I should think. (I wonder if it would help that Bussard himself presented the polywell at Google?)

Best,
- Joe

P.S. If we could stop the whining about the silence from New Mexico, that'd be great. They'll tell us something when they can tell us something.

It's times like these I like google. They've done more interesting work without reasonable expectation of return than any other for-profit company I know of.

JohnSmith wrote:It's times like these I like google. They've done more interesting work without reasonable expectation of return than any other for-profit company I know of.

Didn't Dr. Bussard already pitch to them?

jormungandr wrote:

JohnSmith wrote:It's times like these I like google. They've done more interesting work without reasonable expectation of return than any other for-profit company I know of.

Didn't Dr. Bussard already pitch to them?

No. But some BFR enthusiasts did. Nothing came of it. $10 million is not enough realistically. The next step - continuous operation of a WB-7 size unit for minutes is a $15 to $25 million project due to the cost of the power supplies. If that works out the supplies could be re-used in a WB-100 sized unit.