Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore dreamed of putting an IBM 360 on a single silicon chip. When they had that dream - in 1969 - it seemed like madness. IBM had constructed what looked like an unshakable fortress of monster heavy iron machines, with their glittering rows of scintillating light bulbs and spinning tape drives.
The pulled it off when they released the i386 in 1985 and 1986; it had taken them 17 years to do it. The '486 was basically an IBM 370 on a chip.
By accomplishing that, they (and others it must be noted) shrank IBM to a shadow of its former self. What was once an unstoppable behemoth become an endangered species.
The amount of capital that was mobilized in the effort to accomplish this was staggering.
I believe that the amount of capital that will come out of the woodwork to make LENR power generation into reality will be similar if not greater. If it can happen it will happen. Probably sooner than anyone expects.
It’s a low-energy reaction, so they’re going to have to figure out how to speed it up if they’re going to make power.