Thought Basis For LiftrTM Logo

ByRod Adams

While doing a little thinking during a pre-feast walk, Archimedes popped into my head. Yeah, pretty geeky, but what do you expect. Nearly everyone has heard the famous phrase

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Can the LiftrTM be that lever and the team developing it be the fulcrum? (Or would it be best to picture a team pushing down on the lever.) Anyway, I throw it out for consideration and discussion using this open source etching as a starting point. (It was originally produced in 1824, so it is in the public domain.) Is anyone interested in having a go at modernizing and focusing the graphic for the Liftr Power project.

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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