LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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You can make money by hype by something that works, or by fraud.
I leave it to reader to watch the video and decide if they want to make money or not off this.
Hey if you had to sell your bitcoin in the last two weeks, you might as well invest in something that make some money.
So can they make a laser 1000 times bigger than NIF? I am not sure but maybe the will hire a bunch of former NIF employees to make it work. Just by cutting out Bechtel and the government I would guess you get you automatically bet 10-100 increase. A 10^3 well that could be stretch... but who would you you pick, will NIF or some private company provide fusion energy to the bay area first?
After the quantum computing hype, AI hype...I suppose fusion hype is just as legit as far as bs hype goes. I no longer care if this works as long as I can make profit off this. So yes, use fusion lasers to make free energy for AI centers that run quantum computers that can hack into your AI generated pod.. sounds like money go me.
Ok, lets be serious
500 million sounds like a lot but at LLNL/LANL the overhead rates that would mean about 140million for actual research. Maybe with private company that would 350 million so maybe you could make dent in actual results.
Hmmm...let me look at what can be moved in my portfolio.
Thanks, so private funds supporting this “start up”are based on what? From your post, not much. A Solyndra 2.0 but with private funds?