----- Original Message ----- From: "thomas malloy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: CF Suppression?
> Ed Storms posted; > > For this reason, the government should have a big incentive to embrace > transmutation, if for no other reason to get rid of radioactive waste. > Yet, the government shows no interest. Therefore, rational > self-interest does not play a role in the government's approach. This > leaves only ignorance and incompetence as an explanation. I hope people > who voted for Bush are getting what they want, because the rest of us > are not. > > IMHO, there is a third explanation, a blind adherence to the status > quo, which I suppose could be termed incompetence. I never expected > Bush to change it. As Jed pointed out the Clinton administration > ignored this too. ----------------------------------- There is something much more obvious that that. Transmutation is **known** not to happen except under high energy conditions. Some government money was invested in a method --very conventional physics -- which showed remediation of specific isotopes using high energy processes. Even the LENR processes are specific to certain isotopes. The problem the government has is the remediation of a whole soup of different radioisotopes that are dangerous to handle. Consider the consequences of a failure of some system for remediation that spills half-processes radioactive soup all over the place. Butiding a "safe" plant to do this is itself a very expensive task even if you had a perfrect process, which is nowhere in sight. If you were a president or government administrator would you stake your reputation on sponsoring such a project on your watch? The easy way out is to bury the problem and let some future generation take care of it. So until there is a sea change of opinion among all the best and brightest of government technocrats so that in-depth research is done on LENR processes, it ain't going to happen. There is no point flailing at Bush, Clinton or whoever your favorite god/devil is. The technical base for doing this on an industrial scale does not exist. That doesn't say that seed money should not be spent on investigations. There have been hints of this in the past, which bore no fruit under close inspection. Mike Carrell
