Craig Haynie wrote:
Who's left trying to develop commercial Cold Fusion or cheap LENR?
I know of only 3 or 4 groups in the world, but there may be others with secret funding. Most of the researchers who published the papers at LENR-CANR.org are now retired or dead.
Have we given up on it?
Of course not, but there is no funding, and political opposition makes it impossible to conduct experiments at most universities or corporations.
It seems to me that only Black Light Power is continuing with their commercial plans. Are they our last hope for cheap, clean, abundant energy?
Well, with conventional alternative energy, we could satisfy any two out of three of those criteria. I would vote clean and abundant, but not cheap. Fossil-fuel fails on all three counts.
As for CF . . . You never know. A breakthrough might come even with minimal funding and only a few dozen people working worldwide. However, I think a breakthrough would be hundreds of times more likely if there were $5 or $10 million in funding.
- Jed
