How did the SAFIRE project presentation go...anything interesting? On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here is something I wrote at lenr-forum.com: > > In my opinion, this was the best ICCF conference in a long time. The > number of participants was up. The number of young researchers was up. The > number of experiments was up, compared to past meetings dominated by > theorizing and rehashing old experiments. What brought this partial > renaissance about? The magic ingredient is money. M-o-n-e-y. The present > experiments are far better than any previous ones. Modern, precision > instruments are being used. Things like helium detection are better than > they used to be. The work is being done in first-class facilities, with > superb instruments operated by full-time experts. See, for example: > > http://www.aerospace.org/ > > People are no longer trying to accomplish a miracle on a shoestring, with > 1960s equipment. The money is coming from I.H. and two other sources. It > isn't a huge amount. It is nowhere near enough, in my opinion. But it is > far better than nothing, and it has had an impact. > > I think it is likely that if we had been funded decades ago, there would > be cold fusion automobiles by now. > > It will take many billions of dollars to make cold fusion into a practical > source of energy. Heck, it took a billion just to develop the Prius, which > is a minor incremental improvement to existing technology compared to cold > fusion. But, for the first steps, such as finding effective catalysts, the > money now coming in may be enough, whereas what we had before was certain > failure. > >
