Jones Beene wrote: > > Steve Krivit put up a provocative and insightful video on YouTube that > has gone almost unnoticed: > > _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bujrxqwRwc0&feature=channel_page_ > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bujrxqwRwc0&feature=channel_page> > > It centers on the Frascatti results, and the internal political > workings and machinations, related to LENR in Italy. > > A similar situation was probably going on here in the USA, behind the > scenes. > > The take-way message for me was the brief blip at the end – where the > producer of the piece is trying desperately to make sense of the whole > thing. > > He come to the almost the identical conclusions that many of us have > come to, over the years. My first post on it was 15 years ago. > > It all goes back to the politics of uranium, and particularly depleted > U as a disruptive fuel source which would render as worthless a large > infrastructure related to enriching U (with the military > implications); then there is the related issue of proliferation; and > finally there is the transfer of “expertise” from one entrenched group > and the loss of prestige (and of high paying jobs) for the keepers of > the faith in hot fusion and enrichment, to a the group of raggedy > outsiders. We as a nation do not want individual (or low lever) > control over energy resources. >
Exactly. That's the problem with decentralized power generation. A political (control) one, and an economic (money) one. If everyone is generating his own energy, how do you measure it and charge it? how do you control "proliferation" issues? > That entrenched group of about a quarter million mostly PhDs and > top-notch brain power has failed us miserably the past five decades, > and wasted billions of R&D dollars on dead-end programs that almost > any grad student today can see has zero chance of financial viability. > I get sick to my stomach watching the Major Network and Smiling > Politician back-slapping adulation over such incredible boondoggles as > the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Lab*.* > It is almost criminal in the sense that it CANNOT ever be financially > viable. > > Thinking small. This is almost anti-American. If we cannot Super-Size > it, then it can’t be good for Joe the Plumber. > That's the key of all this energy "problem". That is:Actually there must be a way to put the power meter in between the production and consumption of energy. We're clearly not prepared to live in a better world. We're not up to the task, so to speak. At least, not yet. > The final minute of this video is most thought provoking. It brings > back flashes of the Spanish Inquisition, and other instances where an > overwhelming but misguided majority opinion can easily quash the > minority (and correct) opinion. Fortunately the torture devices are no > longer physical. OTOH perhaps burning at the stake is preferable in > some ways. At least its all over quickly. > > Jones >
