<[email protected]> wrote:
> Even if the nuclear process(es) actually involved in Rossi's device turn > out not to be completely clean, they are at least thousands (if not > millions) of times cleaner than normal fission reactors. Heck yes. For that matter, they will release much less radioactive garbage than coal or even natural gas does. I am sure there will be opposition to cold fusion because it is nuclear. There will be editorials and full page ads with pictures of the Fukushima reactor blowing sky high, and grim warnings that we cannot allow cold nuclear fusion reactors. These ads will be paid for by the Greening Earth Society, or whatever the Western Fuels Association calls its front organization these days. The Western Fuels Association represents coal-fired utility plants. They spend lavishly to buy Members of Congress, mass media reporters, and to pay for "grassroots" opposition to global warming research, and other "lobbying" (so-called -- corruption, in plain English). I am sure they do not spend a single dollar fighting cold fusion, because they, along with most of the adult population, do not know that cold fusion exists. I am equally sure that when it becomes widely known that Dekalion is selling commercial cold fusion reactors, the Western Fuels Association and other fossil fuel lobbying groups will spend hundreds of millions -- maybe billions -- to try to stop it. They will launch the biggest advertising and lobbying campaign in history. They will give lavish campaign contributions to representatives and candidates at every level of government, in both parties. They will buy reporters by the dozens. They will harass, intimidate, and publish lies in the mass media that will make the attacks on cold fusion researchers look tame. I have no doubt they will do this. I have no doubt they will succeed in preventing the use of cold fusion UNLESS . . . UNLESS we win public support. If we can get the truth out, and people realize that cold fusion will save them thousands of dollars, we will win public support. All the money, influence and political power on earth will melt away like dew in morning. Even though the U.S., Europe and Japan are thoroughly corrupt societies, where money and power usually gets its way, they are also fundamentally free societies. Our society has always been corrupt. It is no worse now than it was in the past, and in the past upstart revolutionary technology has sometimes overthrown powerful vested interests. No matter how much power the Western Fuels Association may have, they cannot control the Internet. They cannot silence me and everyone else who knows about this. They can buy up newspapers and TV broadcasters, and pay corrupt reporters to print lies, but they cannot buy *all* mass media outlets, as we saw in the "60 Minutes" broadcast. Also, bear in mind that other people with lots of power and money will want to invest in this. The people paying €200 million at Defkalion are not going to roll over and play dead just because some corrupt U.S. Congressman convenes a congressional investigation accusing them of trumped up charges, or tries to pass a law banning the reactors. A few years ago the Representative from Big Coal (D. WV) tried to pass a law to ban wind turbines, and dismantle all existing turbines. I am sure he knew that would never get out of committee. He proposed it only to prove to his paymasters that he will lick their boots whenever they snap their fingers. The point is, it failed because other powerful monied interests have a stake in wind turbines, and they too can buy Representatives, not because the committee members had a fit of patriotic concern for the nation. You can buy all the elected officials you want, but they will not "stay bought" if the voters demand they allow cold fusion. - Jed
