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Tungsten vs. Beryllium Electrodes I'll take a shot at explaining this... The old electrodes were silver plated solid copper, which showed problems vaporizing (both silver and copper) where the high current arcs first interacted with the electrodes - this process displaces atoms from the...

All, I don't agree that the odds of LPP achieving success are "near-zero." It isn't 100%, but it sure as hell isn't 0%. Mr. Lerner appears to have a credible theoretical model and approach that unless I'm mistaken, has been vetted by a team in Italy, partially by one in Asia and by the...

Peter (et al), You put this better than I could have. I invested because it looks to me like it might be possible, it won't happen without investors like me, it needs to happen to get rid of fossil fuels and I profit if it succeeds. Sure there are possible downsides but that's true of any...

Julian, I almost lost my beverage on this. Thanks! LOL So true. :-) -Paul

Mario, Welcome! I'm really curious about your thoughts here. I'm an investor in LPP and spent years reading tortuously before I came to my conclusion and finally invested. I seek all reasoned contemplations. (I'm a software and strategy guy, but have little physics background; thus the...

Nigel, I think you got the wrong impression, but I think I know why. I wasn't trying to imply all VC is money-grubbing. Quite the opposite -- I was using "money-grubbing" as a modifier to ONLY include those VC who are more interested in money than the larger goals. I think most VC...

Nigel, Could you please elaborate? (I'm genuinely confused by your response.) -Paul

FluxCap, Fair enough - point taken. My intention was not to offend, but to note there is a difference between people whose goal is money first and foremost (money-grubbing) and people for whom money is a tool to accomplish larger goals. If you read my comment again, you'll see that it was...

Dave, That is a really good, well-reasoned overview. The only points I feel could use clarification are the points about funding, execution and LPP’s scrappy make-up. It is certainly uncommon and they are indeed scrappy. I fully agree that raises red flags for many VCs. LPP’s first...

You're quite welcome. I'm glad my ramblings helped someone. :-) -Paul

Understood. It was confusing when it first occurred but I now understand what happened. Thanks again! -Paul

FluxCap, Thank you for welcoming me! Ok. I'm not sure what's going on - I'm going to try to repost the large post I had originally posted as a reply to you. (Confusion abounds!) Paul

FluxCap, I think I just sent you a private message than I intended to post to the thread. OOPS! Let's try that again... :-) (This is the first time I've tried to post here.) Paul

My thoughts, for what they're worth... FluxCap / Everyone, I replied to your post for not particular reason other than to add my $0.02. (Warning: Megapost ahead.) I found this thread looking for new news on LPP. I don't drive a Tesla, although I considered it carefully last year. I've...