Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: If they've repro'd LENR or whatever in their labs, I am pretty sure even > the Saudi's can see more than 1 move ahead in chess. >
Only if they have heard of this, and they believe it, which I strongly doubt. > I think saying this is not connected is saying you don't really believe > that anyone has actually achieved anything significant yet. > In my case, I think that what has been achieved in cold fusion is the most significant technology since the invention of fire. However, I think there is no connection to the price of oil because very few people realize what has been done in cold fusion. I have spoken with people in the oil business and other conventional energy systems. They have no knowledge of this. Even even if they did know, I am pretty sure they would dismiss it. That's human nature. People do not want to seriously consider things that will bankrupt them and end their careers. Here is an example from W. Isaacson's book "The Innovators" which I am just reading. In 1973, the head of a Xerox research facility in Webster, NY told one of the people from Xerox PARC, "The computer will never be as important to society as the copier." (p. 294) - Jed
