Coding skills for what?

7/10/26:

I'm juggling all these blogs. No wonder I haven't got much time.

1/12/26: The original post follows:

  Update:

  New blog. Details over there. Anyway, no more blogging on this blog about my coding. All coding issues will be blogged on the new coding blog.

  There is a league at w3schools, where you can compete with others for points. Points are awarded for completed lessons and challenges and so forth.

  This may be bragging, but I tend to finish near the top every week.

  But the competition is not very fierce. It did start that way, but I got suspicious that it wasn't for real. I don't know if I've changed my mind on that or not.

  At this point, there's not much left to do. Perhaps I could go for a certificate, but that means more money spent. I'm not going to spend more money on this. Not that it was all that much anyway.

  The question now is what to do with this. I don't want a job at a company. It may be a marketable skill, but my working career is over. If I could find something that didn't require punching a clock, I'd consider it.

  I don't want to keep posting on this either. So here I am. What to do with this?

Financial roadmap for LPPFusion

Disclosure: I own shares ( originally 1 share, but there was a split, so now it is ??).

Comment: This is what you call "risk-capital". That is to say, it won't be ruinous for me to lose all of my investment, because $200 investment that goes kaput won't kill me. Read on to see the large potential payoff.

A copy of an email is shown below:

Ivy here with the financial roadmap and exit strategy.

Most investors want to know:

When do I see returns?

What's the exit path?

What's the projected valuation growth?

Let me break it down.

Timeline to Liquidity:

2025-2026 (Current Phase):

Raise $4-5M (this round)

Achieve net energy by end of 2026 (more energy out than in)

Surpass China's hydrogen-boron fusion record

Expected share price increase when net energy achieved

2027-2030 (Prototype Development):

Demonstrate working commercial prototype

Begin licensing discussions with manufacturers (GE, Siemens, Samsung)

Raise additional capital (likely at higher valuation)

Expected share price increases as prototype milestones hit

2030-2031 (Commercialization & Exit):

Execute licensing deals (revenue begins)

IPO / Acquisition (liquidity event for investors)

Projected valuation: 10-100x current ($83.9M - $800M-8B+)

Exit Options:

Option 1: IPO (Most Likely)

Timeline: 2030-2031

Once we demonstrate working prototype and secure licensing deals

Comparable: Helion Energy (projected $3B+ valuation pre-IPO)

LPPFusion advantage: Published results (not just promises)

Option 2: Acquisition

Potential acquirers: GE, Siemens, Samsung, Energy companies

Strategic value: Patents, know-how, team expertise

Precedent: Many fusion startups acquired by larger players

Option 3: Secondary Market (Available Now)

Some investors already selling shares to each other

Liquidity available before IPO (though limited market)

Price: Negotiated between buyer/seller

Financial Projections:

Revenue Model:

Licensing fees: $10-50M per manufacturer

Ongoing royalties: 3-5% of generator sales

Target: 10-20 licensing deals by 2035

Market Capture:

Goal: 25% of global energy market by 2040

100,000 generators deployed globally

Each generator: $5-10M manufacturing cost, powers 4-5K homes

Investor Returns (Hypothetical):

Scenario 1 (Conservative):

IPO valuation: $800M (10x current)

Your $50K investment @ $25/share = 2,000 shares

At 10x: $500K value = 10x return

Scenario 2 (Moderate):

IPO valuation: $4B (50x current)

Your $50K = $2.5M value = 50x return

Scenario 3 (Aggressive):

IPO valuation: $8B+ (100x current)

Your $50K = $5M+ value = 100x return

Disclaimers:

Projections are estimates, not guarantees

High-risk investment (R and D company, technical execution risk)

Past performance (10x share price growth since 2003) doesn't guarantee future results

But here's what we DO guarantee:

Published, peer-reviewed science

Transparent financial audits (SEC-required)

Mission-driven team (refused VC control)

Capital efficiency (proven track record)

Ready to discuss your investment strategy?

Book a call to explore:

Detailed financial projections (Excel model)

Risk factors and mitigation strategies

Large investor perks ($100K+: advisory board seat, lab tours, etc.)

Timing your investment (now vs. waiting for milestones)

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Or invest now:

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The math works. The science works. Let's build it together.

Ivy

P.S. - Investors $100K+ can negotiate custom terms (board seats, advisory roles, preferred reporting). Book a call to discuss.

SpaceX is betting its future on this

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Comment:

The golden goose keeps laying the golden eggs, but some folks want to cook the goose because it is "too fat". But if you try to extract their essense from them, you kill the goose. Not real smart.

What does Brave AI say about the term "grifting"

Link

The term is used so much these days, it may pay to understand what it really means.

Making your own rope

7/7/26:

Quite interesting. At least there's a way to find such videos. This one is in the "How to" category.

7/2/19: The original post is below:

Making rope

He makes a machine that makes the rope.  It is a simple enough machine so that most folks could do it.







Part two making rope

With his machine, he demonstrates it making some rope.








Soda bottle rope:

Must be Seven Up, or Sprite.  ( it's green )  By the way, another one of his machines takes a two liter ( empty) bottle of soda pop, and makes strips that can be woven into rope.  It is actually quite strong.

How to use Shotcut in order to make videos

Starship catch simulations

There are more perspectives here than you can shake a stick at. Given that I watched the launch at a place either near or at what is being simulated, then a jip at that location would be interesting to compare to an actual launch.

Beats the hell out of this stupid political crap, does it not? But the stupid political crap is threatening the good stuff.

A video about Thorium

7/5/26

Another perspective? Probably not... Yours truly has come to suspect that just about anything critical of a technology that will improve conditions for almost all people, is probably an info op. Is this an info op? There's no proof of that here, just a long series of such "reasons" to not push forward with research about new ideas. Examples in the energy field, besides this one include COLD FUSION, ANEUTRONIC FUSION and the like.

Mind you, it is not a conviction that these new ideas will work. It is the insistence upon maintaining the status quo that I suspect. The status quo means nothing new can be allowed. Know what I mean, Vern?

3/19/19:

And it isn't made by the Thorium guys.  Perhaps a different perspective will yield a different answer to the question posed.

His answer was something on the order of "maybe".

Some of what he said seems questionable to me, but maybe I am a little biased in favor of Thorium.

Finally, you don't need Thorium in order to run a molten-salt reactor.  The molten-salt reactor technology would work with uranium.  Thorium is an added bonus.  If you disagree with using thorium, you can still use uranium and it will work fine.  As a matter of fact, there are some folks out there who would like to do that very thing.

One of the more aggressive outfits who is pursuing this strategy is Thorcon.  ( Perhaps I got that wrong.  Look at their name. THORcon? )  Thorcon wants to start making reactors within the five years of so.  Maybe even sooner.

Be on the lookout then, for Thorcon.

Foam making machine

7/4/26:

There's plenty of ideas for the place out West. The thing mainly on my mind is to get some of my strength back. Without that, I cannot do much of anything out there.

If that works out, then its imperative to secure a water source. There's a plan for that. In the beginning, there will have to be some imports, so to speak. There's a way to get water, but it will require some huffing and a puffing.

A permanent structure can be made. That's where this comes into play. Yep. A lot of big plans, and very little action. Never seems to be enough time, nor money, nor anything else that might be helpful.

Here's the original post on the Boots and Oil blog, reposted below:

Oct 21, 2021:

Comment:

The guy's name is Don, and his channel is Prana Tech. He says he'd rather make what he needs as opposed to buying it. With me, it is the other way around. It is a pronounced tendency I suspect.

The video is about how to make the machine that makes aircrete. Before you can build anything with aircrete, you need a machine that can make the foam. This is taking DIY to a new level.

I've watched a few of his videos. It may be getting a bit too much to do all these new things all at once. I'll take it slowly.

Here's the video...

Kirk Sorensen of FLIBE Energy has a new post

Just noticed that this AM.

The dude is amazing. Unfortunately, the best of what's available is not necessarily the one who wins. The man is doing great things, but is not getting the traction that he should get.

The reason? The world is not a just and decent place. Yep, and the starry eyed idealists and naive school-girlish types will continue to believe the fairy tales that are being told every day that keep them in the dark.

He is doing the obvious things. The obvious thing is the thing hiding in plain sight. Meanwhile, Western Europe commits suicide, and America is not far behind. When will we ever learn? We don't have an energy crisis. We never did. It has been forced upon us by those who want us all in chains.

No, I haven't lost my mind. The world has lost its way. Or to put it better, the world has always lost its way. It's a wonder we are all still alive.