Of course solar and biofuels are well known physics and still are with few exceptions economically impractical.
But here is Lenr, not understood at all, and it’s going to be the “next big thing”? And that “horizon” keeps retreating as it’s approached. But patents are issued and papers written and money spent on all those replications.
“If the normal path of good science had been followed instead of the anti-LENR political and economic warfare waged by physicists against it, we would very likely have working power units by now.”
“Sorry, but there is no way you can know that. To say so is simply stupid.”
It certainly WILL be the "next big thing" in physics, once this generation of skeptopaths dies off. These are totally new and not understood quantum mechanically driven phenomena. Radioactivity wasn't understood when Marie Curie found out that radium generated heat with no energy input, and look where THAT has taken physics.
Whether it will be the "next big thing" in energy generation remains to be seen..but current indications are that it certainly has that possiblility.
"And that “horizon” keeps retreating as it’s approached.
Really??? What gives you that idea?? Other than your own prejudices. It looks to me like things are developing more quickly than ever, and that the number of involved researchers is increasing, despite the best efforts on the part of the skeptopaths to prevent that.
But that "is" certainly true of "hot fusion", which you obviously dearly love, not being able (or willing) to say anthing negative about it.
"But patents are issued and papers written and money spent on all those replications."
Patents have only been issued in the last year or so, and virtually all of the research efforts thus far have been done on a shoestring with limited means and equipment, by people that were either "self-financing", had discretionary grant funding (emeritus professor sorts), or were able to "midnight engineer" it without official sanction.
“If the normal path of good science had been followed instead of the anti-LENR political and economic warfare waged by physicists against it, we would very likely have working power units by now.”
Note the words "very likely" in that sentence. No such qualifers were present in your comments.
And that “horizon” keeps retreating as it’s approached.
***By your own reckoning, it retreats 2 years at a time. By Physicists own reckoning, Hot Fusion water heaters retreat 50 years at a time. Since cold fusion is 100,000 more cost effective than hot fusion, it deserves the lion’s share of fed funding, rather than the reverse.