From: Eric Walker
“It won’t take decades or even years. Every major issue has broken in our favor," said Randell. It seems, then, that a major redesign of their system is once more underway. LOL. Sadly this sentiment is both humorous and accurate - backed by repeated episodes of Mills snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Many of us were enamored with Mills in the early days. He has strong academic credentials, charisma, and is a money-magnet. He has an intuitive theory which could be partly correct, despite looking unlike it did 15 years ago. Stolper called him “America’s Newton” and there was justification for that, if…. But his main problem is an inflated ego and a propensity to exaggerate, followed by failure to produce, and then the worst trait of all – to never explain why the last great system failed – as if nothing out of the ordinary happened. It’s almost like he expects it to fail, so when it does, the less said the better. I would love to see Mills be successful, but sadly this latest venture looks to be the least likely of the previous 6 or 7 to succeed. My personal favorite design was the reverse gyrotron. I still think Randy gave up way too soon on that one. Jones
