[Steely Tom]

Not needed. The Toyota work "is" the needed replication of the Mitsubishi work. More confirmations would be "nice" but this is the essential validation of the earlier work.

Yes indeed. I should have read the article before I posted!

This is mighty exciting news.

If LENR can be developed as an energy source (as seems inevitable) I wonder what OPEC will do? "Go Nova" (raise prices in a last attempt to raid the cookie jar before imploding utterly) or try to do "the long fade" by cutting prices to keep research funds away from LENR alternatives.

The problem (for them) is that the environmental movement (which they've funded, nurtured and encouraged) is going to keep going either way, and that hurts them too.

This is great news, truly great.

[tacticalogic]

The first problem will be getting it to scale. Right now it appears to be the 21st Century equivalent of the potato clock.

[CurlyDave]

...If LENR can be developed as an energy source (as seems inevitable) I wonder what OPEC will do? "Go Nova" (raise prices in a last attempt to raid the cookie jar before imploding utterly) or try to do "the long fade" by cutting prices to keep research funds away from LENR alternatives....

Neither of these scenarios is necessary.

A few bribes in advanced countries, and governments will find that LENR are "too dangerous" and that no research can be done. Laws will prevent this threat to moslems.

[Domestic Church]

BTTT! The House of Toyota vs The House of Saud...Toyota wins this one!

[Wonder Warthog]

"I wonder what OPEC will do? "Go Nova" (raise prices in a last attempt to raid the cookie jar before imploding utterly) or try to do "the long fade" by cutting prices to keep research funds away from LENR alternatives.

I suspect neither. My bet is that they will try to "move upstream" to higher value added products (plastics and other petrochemicals). Unfortunately, Muslims have not proven very successful at higher level science/technology, and the strict Islamic culture doesn't lend itself well to attracting "wild geese" sorts of non-Muslim sci/tech types.