At least here, and at least about fusor stuff. It's because we made a ginormous breakthrough, actually. We are at approximately 100 billion neutrons/second with under 100w input. I had been using this site and making it all open source to give me "first to invent" status, recorded and time-stamped by an uninterested 3rd party - I have to patent this to give it away(!). But recent changes in patent laws, and events here have made me have to shut up till the patent is filed and perhaps granted.
First to invent no longer is the law - it's now first to file. That means someone else can steal it, patent it, monopolize it - admit they did - and still own it legally and rip off the world. This is not acceptable.
I'm really sorry about that - it's not under my control as is. But I do plan to actually give this away, with whatever details required to dupe my results and have already revealed the details such as they are to a few I trust in case I get hit by a meteor or something. (Pretty much anyone here could ask me and I'd tell them - it's jaw droppingly elegant and all standard model too...just not obvious till you've seen it - it's going to be fun to tell about!).
Thus all this crap I've been putting up on youtube (I'm DCFusor there) about building a new building and so on - so I can control and tune this from a safe distance. That's the real motivation - I like being alive, and that level of output - and scaling down has stopped being effective - I can't be in the room with for even a few seconds (as I found out the very hard way, and it took awhile to recover from). Since erecting meters-thick concrete shielding in the building the fusor is in isn't practical, and requires remoting it all anyway, I'm simply moving across my campus to a safe distance and letting the air and inverse square (and in some cases, better than that) law do that for me. Yes, it's taking way too long, I'm chomping at the bit - what are the chances I hit the right "tuning" on the first go? E^-(some_big_number), right? So I'm busy as heck building remote data aq and remote tuning right now. Just so you guys know - this project is far from dead, rather the opposite. There have been some interesting revelations along the way, which I'm chomping at the bit to share - but I can't just now for the reasons I stated above.
No, "big energy" isn't after me in a negative way, in fact, they've been in touch to try and buy in (news does travel, so why not let you guys in on it too?) - despite their propaganda, they know there are problems and want a chair for when the music stops. But each wants an exclusive, which of course is anathema to where I'm coming from, so no joy there so far. I believe we'll get there soon enough...not my worry just now. I'm sure a consortium can be assembled. Obviously, I'm not going to make fusion reactors for the world, there are other guys who make boilers, turbines, generators, and all the rest far better than I ever will, and they don't care how the heat is made, and they'll make money no matter what - we have no arguments whatever.
A couple hundred mW out for <100W in I think puts me at the Q record for all approaches for all time, though, and that feels pretty good (once I got over the rad sickness). And it's not a pulse thing, it's continuous and will run all day, all year. Normally, I'm pretty much of a cowboy and don't care about spurious "safety" fears, but that was a real eye opener...not to mention the amount of puking I had to dispose of. No more of that, now we go "by the book" on rad safety, which takes what it takes. Just so y'all know...I'm not dead, no one seems to want that (especially including me) and I've not given up or run into a wall - we're in what my partner calls a "good bad place" right now - good that we are doing so well, bad that we can't scale it down to the point of working in the same room with it safely. So, I have to spend all this time on otherwise boring infrastructure in order to continue. I expect some pretty cool announcements in a few months. This junk takes way too much time and effort, but we gotta do what we gotta do....