[DHerion]

Also, by the time the Manhattan Project was established the basic concept of how an atomic bomb would work had already been determined. The Manhattan Project was really the spending of huge amounts of money to create the cores of the bombs.

The equivalent of a 21st Century Manhattan Project would be we had the basic workings of a powerful battery and now we just needed to build the manufacturing base to build millions of them.

[gleeaikin]

We don’t need a massive, centrally controlled effort for better fuel sources. What we need is more support for the many small creative efforts that people are engaged in to find solutions. And I believe we need to use the whole mix of sources to achieve energy independence without using up our grandchildren’s patrimony.

One surprising thing to come out of the oil industry hearings recently was how little these guys are investing in viable alternatives.