Michele Comitini <[email protected]> wrote:
> IMHO there is no need to fear that explosions will stop cold fusion. We > have had all kinds of explosions in the history of energy production and/or > extraction. Yes. For example, when Rudolf Diesel developed his engine, one of them exploded. However, nowadays people have higher standards. Unrealistically high: they demand perfect safety from a new technology even when it will replace an older unsafe technology. Think of nuclear fission with bombs, or hot fusion. Explosions means lot of > energy and they are tangible even to stupid politicians. > If there are explosions or people are irradiated, opponents will say: "We must not allow this. They will never make it safe!! They have had 22 years to make it safe and they still can't do it." One of the opponents at the "60 Minutes" site said that cold fusion research has been funded long enough. It has not produced a practical source of energy, so it should be abandoned. This person measured funding strictly in time, not dollars or man-hours. Measured by the latter standards, cold fusion has made wonderful strides compared to plasma fusion, clean coal, solar PV and other sources of energy. - Jed
