[CDHart]

"-- if it is funded appropriately."

IMO, that's the bottom line here. Somebody wants a grant for something that may or may not work.

Carolyn

[ckilmer]

"-- if it is funded appropriately."
IMO, that's the bottom line here. Somebody wants a grant for something that may or may not work.

Carolyn

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some of the best money the feds spend is on basic research--the sort of work work that doesn't have a direct commercial application--within a 2-3 year time frame. which is the outer boundary of most private R&D investment.

federal seed money can be found at the base of most industries today.

Last fall the cold fusion people came back to the DOE with their experimental results again. and again they were rejected--because the results were sufficiently reproduceable. in this case it looks like the results are reproduceable.

[rommy]

That's how progress is made.