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Posted on 05/10/2009 10:51:25 AM PDT by energyguy99
One of the technologies that seems a likely candidate for this funding is the rebirth of cold fusion, or now known as a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) such as featured in a 60 Minutes TV news magazine segment on April 19.
How do they know it’s a breakthrough and not just another white elephant?
Yep big thinking will do it. Like no more drilling, no more coal, no more nuclear. That’s thinking big. Really big stoopid.
Our present energy “problem” can easily be solved with the resources and technology that we have today.
They talk about funding “breakthroughs” as if the money will miraculously ensure a new, workable solution will arise.
These people are not intelligent, IMO.
Until you do the research and even build a functional prototype, you don't. Nobody knew nuclear power would work until it did.
This is why the very notion of the government making decisions about which processes should be implemented is unbelievably stupid.
An example, right now we're mandating CFL bulbs be used instead of incandescents, because they're roughly five times more energy efficient. This will lock us into a probably obsolete technology when LED fixture come on line, which are several times more efficient than CFLs.
I'm sure there is a secret that the evil energy companies are hiding the will give us all free energy for zero cost and it will also provide jobs for everyone without polluting anything.
Plus CFL's create a huge disposal problem due to their mercury content. Even with LED lights available, there are still some niches for incandescent bulbs. Appliance light bulbs for use in ovens is one. I'd sure hate for a CFL to break inside an oven, and LED's don't take heat very well.
I would go for Anti-gravity first. Yes it’s a long shot but look at the payoff - we could send Obama to the moon for next to nothing.
“How do they know it’s a breakthrough and not just another white elephant?”
One way you know that scientific progress has been made is
if the people involved are actually scientist in some form or fashion - as opposed to science impaired beaurocrats like al gore and the other 66,000 Acorn family members that have been recently put on government payrolls.
White elephants are promoted by politicians. Scientists ethically don’t depart from facts nor do they avoid discussion of ancilliary effects.
Change its name from Cold Fusion to Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) - that’s the ticket. It’s working so well for Climate Change aka Global Warming.
This is true
But they are funding new technologies and they are so sure of success they are killing the oil, gas, coal and nuclear industry. Soon we will all be very happy with our new wind and solar powered energy.
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I think it’s all moot.
The oligarchy is NOT going to let anything out into the public arena which would individualize power production and use . . .
thereby limiting their !!!!!CONTROL!!!!!
unless and until they have many other control mechanisms in place . . . such as dog-chipped people.
The answer is easy....
If the government funds it with our tax dollars, it’s a white elephant.
If private funds are invested, it’s likely a breakthrough.
if arpa is anything like darpa then the USA is in good shape long term.
Last I heard, the official DOE policy was that they would potentially fund cold fusion proposals that pass through the normal peer review process.
I can’t believe this company was profiled (or maybe I can w/ CBS’ journalistic standards). What is a “SuperWave”? It’s pretty magical, since it applies not only to cold fusion but to disease too. Every link to a publication (none in a peer reviewed physics or chemistry journal) are by this guy Dardik. They read more like philosophical infomercials than scientific papers.
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