Evidently top honours went to the "forbidden energy" prize: http://www.xprize.org/ideas/visioneering
but as Bob says the final decision has yet to be announced. Harry On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Since May of this year, there has been an on-and-off discussion thread > here, "Cold Fusion X Prize." This confused me. I don't follow who is > proposing what. Dennis Cravens is also baffled by this. > > Anyway, following the links, there is a recent short article in e-catworld: > > > http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/09/13/xprize-offers-20-million-for-forbidden-energy/ > > This article has a video. The article links back to Dr. Bob's page: > > http://www.drboblog.com/xprize-forbidden-energy-xprize/ > > Dr. Bob says there was a discussion of this during the "Visioneering > Contest." That's what is shown in the video. Then Dr. Bob concludes: > > * Winning the Visioneering Contest does not automatically qualify a topic > for the XPRIZE competition. The sponsors and the board of the XPRIZE > foundation (?) will take the final decision for the XPRIZE – Which is yet > to be announced. > > * The founders, sponsors and partners of XPRIZE are individuals & > companies that could all benefit greatly economically from a Forbidden > Energy competition – there are no obvious conflicting interests. > > Dr. Bob links to: > > www.xprize.org > > So, you have to go to this web site to see whether the people at xprize > decided to implement this Visioneering Contest winner. I went there, and > found nothing about cold fusion. I found this list of future prizes: > > http://www.xprize.org/prizes/future-prizes > > Neither energy nor cold fusion is mentioned. > > Below that is a list of "Prize Concepts." There is a category "Energy & > Environment" with 7 items in it. Cold fusion is not among them. > > > So, I guess the discussion never went beyond the Visioneering Contest. > Right? > > - Jed > >
